Essays considering what it means to love art, culture, and people
in an age of accelerating disaster. Ā This is a book about
loving thingsābooks, songs, peopleāin 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 likeĀ The Shining, shows likeĀ 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.
Ā Navigating an overwhelming feeling that Coviello calls
āendstrickenness,ā 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 āLast
Things.ā Ā
General
Imprint: |
University of Chicago Press
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Country of origin: |
United States |
Release date: |
October 2023 |
First published: |
2023 |
Authors: |
Peter Coviello
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Dimensions: |
216 x 140mm (L x W) |
Pages: |
304 |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-226-82807-7 |
Categories: |
Books
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LSN: |
0-226-82807-7 |
Barcode: |
9780226828077 |
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