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30 produkter
Conceptualisms
The Anthology of Prose, Poetry, Visual, Found, E- & Hybrid Writing As Contemporary Art
Av Joe Amato, David Antin m. fl.
Häftad, 2022
507 kr
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A wide-ranging anthology of experimental writing—prose, poetry, and hybrid—from its most significant practitioners and innovators A variety of names have been used to describe fiction, poetry, and hybrid writing that explore new forms and challenges mainstream traditions. Those phrases include …
Ellipse of Uncertainty
An Introduction to Postmodern Fantasy
Av Lance Olsen
Inbunden, 1987
983 kr
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This fascinating study of literary theory is the first work of its kind to examine the intersection of fantasy and postmodernism, and to analyze contemporary fantasy writers comparatively. After carefully developing working definitions of postmodernism and fantasy, the author goes on to analyze …
Shrapnel: Contemplations
Av Lance Olsen
E-bok, 2024
71 kr
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For decades, Lance Olsen has been a wellspring of literary innovation, sophistication, and elan. With more than thirty books to his name, he consistently pushes the limits of narrative and aspires for the New. SHRAPNEL: CONTEMPLATIONS brings together some of Olsen’s most compelling nonfiction from …
Sewing Shut My Eyes
Av Lance Olsen
Häftad, 2000
233 kr
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A selection of short stories set in a future where America has become a channel-surfing nation, where pain has become home theatre and, with so many channels, watching TV beats sex.
Girl Imagined by Chance
Av Lance Olsen
Häftad, 2002
282 kr
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Lance Olsen's sixth novel, Girl Imagined by Chance, is a formally innovative, intensely lyrical novel about the way fictions can take over our lives. It tells the story of an unnamed cyber-journalist and his photographer-wife, Reyla, who, childless and approaching middle age, abruptly move to a …
Nietzsche's Kisses
A Novel
Av Lance Olsen
Häftad, 2006
233 kr
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Locked in a small room on the top floor of a house in Weimar, the most radical and influential of nineteenth-century German philosophers hovers between dream and wakefulness, memory and hallucination, the first person, second, and third, past and present, reliving his brief love affair with …
Theories of Forgetting
Av Lance Olsen
Häftad, 2014
282 kr
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Theories of Forgetting is concerned with how words matter, the materiality of the page, and how a literary work might react against mass reproduction and textual disembodiment in the digital age.Theories of Forgetting is a narrative in three parts. The first is the story of Alana, a filmmaker …
Always Crashing in the Same Car
A Novel After David Bowie
Av Lance Olsen
Häftad, 2023
233 kr
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A prismatic, imaginative exploration of David Bowie’s last daysAn intricate collage-novel fusing and confusing fact and imagination, Always Crashing in the Same Car is a prismatic exploration of David Bowie through multiple voices and perspectives—the protean musician himself, an academic trying to …
Calendar of Regrets
Av Lance Olsen
E-bok, 2010
631 kr
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A wildly inventive and visually rich collage of twelve interconnected narratives, one for each month of the year, all pertaining to notions of travel--through time, space, narrative, and death The poisoning of the painter Hieronymus Bosch; anchorman Dan Rather’s mysterious mugging on Park Avenue as …
Sewing Shut My Eyes
Av Lance Olsen
E-bok, 2015
413 kr
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A tour-de-force avant-pop anti-spectacle Sewing Shut My Eyes is a tour-de-force avant-pop anti-spectacle—nine darkly satiric out-takes of America tubing. Visions of mid-air synchronicities, robotic cockroaches, cyborg poets and one monstrous HDTV, all rendered in a hypo-manic style of electrified …
Nietzsche's Kisses
A Novel
Av Lance Olsen
E-bok, 2015
404 kr
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Nietzsche''s Kisses is the story of Friedrich Nietzsche''s last mad night on earth. Locked in a small room on the top floor of a house in Weimar, the most radical and influential of nineteenth-century German philosophers hovers between dream and wakefulness, memory and hallucination, the first …
Girl Imagined by Chance
Av Lance Olsen
E-bok, 2015
413 kr
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Girl Imagined by Chance is a critifictional novel about a couple who find themselves having created a make-believe daughter (and soon a make-believe life to accompany her) in order to appease their friends, family, and the culture of reproduction. Structured around twelve photographs from a single …
Always Crashing in the Same Car
A Novel after David Bowie
Av Lance Olsen
E-bok, 2023
404 kr
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A prismatic, imaginative exploration of David Bowie’s last days An intricate collage-novel fusing and confusing fact and imagination, Always Crashing in the Same Car is a prismatic exploration of David Bowie through multiple voices and perspectives—the protean musician himself, an academic trying …
Absolute Away
Av Lance Olsen
E-bok, 2024
139 kr
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With Lance Olsen’s signature flair, Absolute Away is an innovative narrative triptych, a story of one life reimagined. The first movement tells the story of Edie Metzger, a little Jewish girl who bit Hermann Göring’s lip so hard it bled at a Nazi book-burning rally in 1933. In the second, in 1956, …
Inventory of Benevolent Butterflies
A Novel After Henry Darger
Av Lance Olsen
Inbunden, 2026
317 kr
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With the literary mastery of Samuel Beckett and Thomas Bernhard, award-winning author Lance Olsen presents a lyrical novelization of an artist’s solitary, disembodied life, as dreamlike as it is captivating.At the end of his life in 1973, Henry Darger’s mind is a series of recollections: of his …
How to Unfeel the Dead: New and Selected Fictions
Av Lance Olsen
E-bok, 2015
107 kr
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With fictions from four previous collections, as well as eight new fictions covering the past decade, Olsen has put together a fantastic overview of his lengthy and critically acclaimed history as an author.
Head in Flames
Av Lance Olsen
E-bok, 2015
107 kr
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Head in Flames is a collage novel composed of chips of sensation, observation, memory, & quotation shaped into a series of narraticules told by three alternating voices, each inhabiting a different font & aesthetic/political/existential space. The first belongs to Vincent van Gogh on the day he …
10:01
Av Lance Olsen
E-bok, 2015
105 kr
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You''re sitting in a darkened theater, waiting for the movie to begin when American culture explodes all around in I-Max, Sensurround, Technicolor—this is the experience of reading Lance Olsen''s brilliant 10:01, a novel in frames that unreels the random thoughts of a random movie audience: a …
My Red Heaven
Av Lance Olsen
E-bok, 2020
149 kr
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Set on a single day in 1927, My Red Heaven imagines a host of characters-some historic, some invented-crossing paths on the streets of Berlin. The subjects include Robert Musil, Otto Dix, Werner Heisenberg, Anita Berber, Vladimir Nabokov, Kathe Kollwitz, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, and Rosa Luxemburg …
Skin Elegies
Av Lance Olsen
E-bok, 2022
148 kr
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"Olsen’s fascinating experiment achieves heft by the accumulation of personal and collective loss, which makes the nightmarish coda feel eerily plausible. Together, the elegant and heartbreaking set pieces prompt deep reflection on the connections between minds and bodies, and on where both are …
Absolute Away
Av Lance Olsen
Häftad, 2024
181 kr
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With Lance Olsen’s signature flair, Absolute Away is an innovative narrative triptych, a story of one life reimagined. The first movement tells the story of Edie Metzger, a little Jewish girl who bit Hermann Göring’s lip so hard it bled at a Nazi book-burning rally in 1933. In the second, in 1956, …
My Red Heaven
A Novel
Av Lance Olsen
Häftad, 2020
180 kr
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Set on a single day in 1927, My Red Heaven imagines a host of characters—some historic, some invented—crossing paths on the streets of Berlin. The subjects include Robert Musil, Otto Dix, Werner Heisenberg, Anita Berber, Vladimir Nabokov, Käthe Kollwitz, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, and Rosa …
Skin Elegies
Av Lance Olsen
Häftad, 2021
181 kr
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"Olsen’s fascinating experiment achieves heft by the accumulation of personal and collective loss, which makes the nightmarish coda feel eerily plausible. Together, the elegant and heartbreaking set pieces prompt deep reflection on the connections between minds and bodies, and on where both are …
