Is There God after Prince? - Dispatches from an Age of Last Things

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
First published:	2023
Authors:	Peter Coviello
Dimensions:	216 x 140mm (L x W)
Pages:	304
ISBN-13:	978-0-226-82807-7
Categories:	Books
LSN:	0-226-82807-7
Barcode:	9780226828077

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