Obscure Objects of Desire
Author | : Johanna Malt |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9780199253425 |
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Author | : Johanna Malt |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9780199253425 |
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Total Pages | : 109 |
Release | : 2013 |
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ISBN | : 9781870507325 |
Author | : William Rothman |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 458 |
Release | : 1982 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
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Confronting murder in the newspaper, on screen, and in sensational trials, we often feel the killer is fundamentally incomprehensible and morally alien. But this was not always the popular response to murder. In Murder Most Foul, Karen Halttunen explores the changing view of murder from early New England sermons read at the public execution of murderers, through the nineteenth century, when secular and sensational accounts replaced the sacred treatment of the crime, to today's true crime literature and tabloid reports. The early narratives were shaped by a strong belief in original sin and spiritual redemption, by the idea that all murders were natural manifestations of the innate depravity of humankind. In a dramatic departure from that view, the Gothic imagination--with its central conventions of the fundamental horror and mystery of the crime--seized upon the murderer as a moral monster, separated from the normal majority by an impassable gulf. Halttunen shows how this perception helped shape the modern response to criminal transgression, mandating criminal incarceration, and informing a social-scientific model of criminal deviance. The Gothic expression of horror and inhumanity is the predominant response to radical evil today; it has provided a set of conventions surrounding tales of murder that appear to be natural and instinctive, when in fact they are rooted in the nineteenth century. Halttunen's penetrating insight into her extraordinary treasure trove of creepy popular crime literature reveals how our stories have failed to make sense of the killer and how that failure has constrained our understanding and treatment of criminality today.
Author | : John Koenig |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 2021-11-16 |
Genre | : Reference |
ISBN | : 1501153668 |
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “It’s undeniably thrilling to find words for our strangest feelings…Koenig casts light into lonely corners of human experience…An enchanting book. “ —The Washington Post A truly original book in every sense of the word, The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows poetically defines emotions that we all feel but don’t have the words to express—until now. Have you ever wondered about the lives of each person you pass on the street, realizing that everyone is the main character in their own story, each living a life as vivid and complex as your own? That feeling has a name: “sonder.” Or maybe you’ve watched a thunderstorm roll in and felt a primal hunger for disaster, hoping it would shake up your life. That’s called “lachesism.” Or you were looking through old photos and felt a pang of nostalgia for a time you’ve never actually experienced. That’s “anemoia.” If you’ve never heard of these terms before, that’s because they didn’t exist until John Koenig set out to fill the gaps in our language of emotion. The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows “creates beautiful new words that we need but do not yet have,” says John Green, bestselling author of The Fault in Our Stars. By turns poignant, relatable, and mind-bending, the definitions include whimsical etymologies drawn from languages around the world, interspersed with otherworldly collages and lyrical essays that explore forgotten corners of the human condition—from “astrophe,” the longing to explore beyond the planet Earth, to “zenosyne,” the sense that time keeps getting faster. The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows is for anyone who enjoys a shift in perspective, pondering the ineffable feelings that make up our lives. With a gorgeous package and beautiful illustrations throughout, this is the perfect gift for creatives, word nerds, and human beings everywhere.
Author | : Gary Earl Ross |
Publisher | : iUniverse |
Total Pages | : 238 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 059509306X |
The ghosts in the home of a dead lover. An angel with a gunshot wound in her wing. A nude painting with the power to seduce. A startling wedding night confession. From the commonplace to the surreal to the supernatural, The Wheel of Desire and Other Intimate Hauntings explores the deep and lingering human connections that shape the individual soul. Full of joy, pain, and wonder, the stories in this collection introduce us to obscure objects of desire, lovers and loved ones lost and found, and the unexpected choices that arise from the labyrinth of the hopelessly human heart.
Author | : Robert Greene |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 481 |
Release | : 2023-10-31 |
Genre | : Self-Help |
ISBN | : 0670881465 |
Amoral, cunning, ruthless, and instructive, this multi-million-copy New York Times bestseller is the definitive manual for anyone interested in gaining, observing, or defending against ultimate control – from the author of The Laws of Human Nature. In the book that People magazine proclaimed “beguiling” and “fascinating,” Robert Greene and Joost Elffers have distilled three thousand years of the history of power into 48 essential laws by drawing from the philosophies of Machiavelli, Sun Tzu, and Carl Von Clausewitz and also from the lives of figures ranging from Henry Kissinger to P.T. Barnum. Some laws teach the need for prudence (“Law 1: Never Outshine the Master”), others teach the value of confidence (“Law 28: Enter Action with Boldness”), and many recommend absolute self-preservation (“Law 15: Crush Your Enemy Totally”). Every law, though, has one thing in common: an interest in total domination. In a bold and arresting two-color package, The 48 Laws of Power is ideal whether your aim is conquest, self-defense, or simply to understand the rules of the game.
Author | : Mateo Kries |
Publisher | : Vitra Design Museum |
Total Pages | : 380 |
Release | : 2019-09 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9783945852330 |
Surrealism expanded our reality by drawing upon myths, dreams, and the subconscious as sources of artistic inspiration. Beginning in the 1930s, the movement made a crucial impact on design, and it continues to inspire designers to this day. »Objects of Desire: Surrealism and Design« is the first book to document this fascinating conversation. It includes numerous essays and a comprehensive selection of images which traces these reciprocal exchanges by juxtaposing exemplary artworks and design objects. Among the featured artists and designers are Gae Aulenti, Achille Castiglioni, Giorgio de Chirico, Le Corbusier, Salvador Dalí, Marcel Duchamp, ntoni Gaudí, Frederick Kiesler, René Magritte, Carlo Mollino, Meret Oppenheim, and many others. The book is rounded off with historical text material as well as short texts and statements by contemporary designers. This in- depth examination makes one thing abundantly clear: form does not always follow function -- it can also follow our obsessions, our fantasies, and our hidden desires.
Author | : René Girard |
Publisher | : A&C Black |
Total Pages | : 480 |
Release | : 2003-01-01 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0826468535 |
Presenting an original global theory of culture, Girard explores the social function of violence and the mechanism of the social scapegoat. His vision is a challenge to conventional views of literature, anthropology, religion and psychoanalysis. Rene Gerard is the Andrew B. Hammond Professor Emeritus of French Language, Literature and Civilization at Stanford University, USA.
Author | : Ray Bradbury |
Publisher | : HarperCollins UK |
Total Pages | : 170 |
Release | : 2014-01-09 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0007539851 |
One of Ray Bradbury’s classic short story collections, available in ebook for the first time.
Author | : George Black |
Publisher | : Random House (NY) |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Bamboo |
ISBN | : 9781400063963 |
An avid fisherman offers a personal and cultural history of the bamboo fly rod and the sport it represents, profiling gifted craftsmen who pursue the perfect fly-fishing rod and examining the tension between individual creativity and mass production.