Essays considering what it means to love art, culture, and people
in an age of accelerating disaster. This is a book about loving
things-books, songs, people-in the shadow of a felt, looming
disaster. Through lyrical, funny, heart-wrenching essays, Peter
Coviello considers pieces of culture across a fantastic range,
setting them inside the vivid scenes of friendship, dispute,
romance, talk, and loss, where they enter our lives. Alongside him,
we reencounter movies like The Shining, shows like The Sopranos;
videos; poems; novels by Sam Lipsyte, Sally Rooney, and Paula Fox;
as well as songs by Joni Mitchell, Gladys Knight, Steely Dan,
Pavement, and the much-mourned saint of Minneapolis, Prince.
Navigating an overwhelming feeling that Coviello calls
"endstrickenness," he asks what it means to love things in
calamitous times, when so much seems to be shambling toward
collapse. Balancing comedy and anger, exhilaration and sorrow,
Coviello illuminates the strange ways the things we cherish help us
to hold on to life and to its turbulent joys. Is There God after
Prince? shows us what twenty-first-century criticism can be, and
how it might speak to us, in a time of ruin, in an age of "Last
Things."
General
Imprint: |
University of Chicago Press
|
Country of origin: |
United States |
Release date: |
October 2023 |
Authors: |
Peter Coviello
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Dimensions: |
216 x 140mm (L x W) |
Pages: |
304 |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-226-82808-4 |
Categories: |
Books
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LSN: |
0-226-82808-5 |
Barcode: |
9780226828084 |
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