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24 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 …
Trance-Migrations
Stories of India, Tales of Hypnosis
Av Lee Siegel
Häftad, 2014
215 kr
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Listen to what I am about to tell you: do not read this book alone. You really shouldn't. In one of the most playful experiments ever put between two covers, every other section of Trance-Migrations prescribes that you read its incantatory tales out loud to a lover, friend, or confidant, in order …
Are You Serious?
How to Be True and Get Real in the Age of Silly
Av Lee Siegel
E-bok, 2011
159 kr
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LeeSiegel, author of Falling Upwards , Not RemotelyControlled , and Against the Machine delivers a provocative critique ofmodern lightness and frivolity, and a timely guide to being serious in an unserious age. In the vein of The Culture of Narcissism , Shop Class as Soulcraft , and How Proust Can …
Net of Magic
Wonders and Deceptions in India
Av Lee Siegel
Häftad, 1991
402 kr
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Scholar and magician, Siegel uncovers the age-old practices of magic in sacred rites and rituals and unveils the contemporary world of Indian magic of street and stage entertainers. Siegel's journeys take him from ancient Sanskrit texts to the slums of New Dehli as he explores India's remarkable …
City of Dreadful Night
A Tale of Horror and the Macabre in India
Av Lee Siegel
Inbunden, 1995
985 kr
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When Lee Siegel went to India to do research for a book on Sanskrit horror literature, a friend in New Delhi told him about an itinerant teller of ghost and vampire tales, a man with clusters of amulets around his neck and a silk top hat with peacock plumes on his head. Siegel set out in search of …
Love in a Dead Language
Av Lee Siegel
Inbunden, 1999
314 kr
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Love in a Dead Language is a love story, a translation of an Indian sex manual, an erotic farce, and a murder mystery. The hero of this protean comedy, Leopold Roth, complains, "I am a tenured full professor of Indian studies and a Sanskrit scholar, and yet never, never in my life, have I made love …
Who Wrote the Book of Love?
Av Lee Siegel
E-bok, 2010
523 kr
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Who Wrote the Book of Love? is acclaimed novelist Lee Siegel''s comedic chronicle of the sexual life of an American boy in Southern California in the 1950s. Starting at the beginning of the decade, in the year that Stalin announced that the Soviet Union had developed an atomic bomb, the book opens …
Love and the Incredibly Old Man
A Novel
Av Lee Siegel
E-bok, 2008
523 kr
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“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times” begins one chapter of critically acclaimed Lee Siegel’s new novel, Love and the Incredibly Old Man . “In the beginning” starts another. What else can a novelist do when hired as a ghostwriter by an elderly, irascible, conquistador-costumed man …
Why Argument Matters
Av Lee Siegel
Inbunden, 2022
360 kr
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An impassioned case for argument’s central role in human life, by one of America’s most distinguished cultural critics
Groucho Marx
The Comedy of Existence
Av Lee Siegel
Häftad, 2019
172 kr
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A trenchant examination of an iconic American figure that explores the cultural and psychological roots of his comic geniusBorn Julius Marx in 1890, the brilliant comic actor who would later be known as Groucho was the most verbal of the famed comedy team, the Marx Brothers, his broad slapstick …
Why Argument Matters
Av Lee Siegel
Häftad, 2023
212 kr
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Hailed by the New York Times as a book that “examines the role that argument has played throughout history and how it has shaped human existence” “An invigorating reflection on the nature and value of disagreement. . . . Sharp and taut. . . . A lesson in a well-constructed argument …
Draw
A Memoir
Av Lee Siegel
E-bok, 2017
168 kr
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A "What We''re Reading This Summer" Pick by The Atlantic The Draw is a "spellbinding, coming-of-age tour de force" ( New York Times Book Review ) about a boy striving to make his way up through society and out of a family that has been emotionally and psychologically devastated by economic …
Against the Machine: How the Web Is Reshaping Culture and Commerce -- and Why It Matters
Av Lee Siegel
Häftad, 2009
267 kr
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Against the Machine
Being Human in the Age of the Electronic Mob
Av Lee Siegel
E-bok, 2008
245 kr
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From the author hailed by the New York Times Book Review for his “drive-by brilliance” and dubbed by the New York Times Magazine as “one of the country’s most eloquent and acid-tongued critics” comes a ruthless challenge to the conventional wisdom about the most consequential cultural development …
Falling Upwards
Essays in Defense of the Imagination
Av Lee Siegel
Inbunden, 2006
351 kr
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Sex and the City, Saul Bellow, Eyes Wide Shut , Dante and the American self, Barbara Kingsolver, acting in Hollywood, Soviet painting in Soho, Angels in America , Jane Austen in the present, J.K. Rowling- nothing escapes Lee Siegel's incandescent eye. Siegel possesses an intellectual range and …
Against The Machine
Being Human in the Era of the Electronic Mob
Av Lee Siegel
E-bok, 2011
157 kr
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Against the Machine is a fascinating look at how the Internet is reshaping the way we think about ourselves and the world. Siegel explores how the internet affects culture and social life, particularly the psychological, emotional and social cost of high-tech solitude. Arguing that the internet''s …
Trance-Migrations
Stories of India, Tales of Hypnosis
Av Lee Siegel
Inbunden, 2014
615 kr
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Listen to what I am about to tell you: do not read this book alone. You really shouldn't. In one of the most playful experiments ever put between two covers, every other section of Trance-Migrations prescribes that you read its incantatory tales out loud to a lover, friend, or confidant, in order …
City of Dreadful Night
A Tale of Horror and the Macabre in India
Av Lee Siegel
Häftad, 1995
285 kr
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When Lee Siegel went to India to do research for a book on Sanskrit horror literature, a friend in New Delhi told him about an itinerant teller of ghost and vampire tales, a man with clusters of amulets around his neck and a silk top hat with peacock plumes on his head. Siegel set out in search of …
Laughing Matters
Comic Tradition in India
Av Lee Siegel
Inbunden, 1987
867 kr
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"How can anyone laugh who knows of old age, disease, and death?"—Buddhacarita This question, so solemnly posed by the young Buddha, first led Lee Siegel to examine the hitherto unexplored realm of Indian comedy. Laughing Matters is Siegel's account of two intersecting journeys: a search for comic …
Love in a Dead Language
Av Lee Siegel
Häftad, 2000
304 kr
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This is a love story, a translation of an Indian sex manual, an erotic farce, and a murder mystery. The hero of this protean comedy, Leopold Roth, complains, "I am a tenured full professor of Indian studies and a Sanskrit scholar, and yet never, never in my life, have I made love to an Indian …
Who Wrote the Book of Love?
Av Lee Siegel
Inbunden, 2005
265 kr
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Who Wrote the Book of Love? is acclaimed novelist Lee Siegel's comedic chronicle of the sexual life of an American boy in Southern California in the 1950s. Starting at the beginning of the decade, in the year that Stalin announced that the Soviet Union had developed an atomic bomb, the book opens …
Love and the Incredibly Old Man
A Novel
Av Lee Siegel
Inbunden, 2008
245 kr
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"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times," begins one chapter of critically acclaimed author Lee Siegel's new novel, "Love and the Incredibly Old Man". "In the beginning," starts another. That's how low a desperate novelist will go when hired as a ghostwriter by an elderly, irascible, …
