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Falling upwards : essays in defense of the imagination / Lee Siegel.
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| Authors: |
Siegel, Lee.
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| Call number: |
700 SIE |
| Publisher: |
New York : Basic Books, c2006. |
| Publication date: |
c2006. |
| Subject: |
Arts.
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| Title: |
Falling upwards : essays in defense of the imagination / Lee Siegel. |
| Physical description: |
xxii, 337 p. ; 22 cm. |
| Contents note: |
Pt. 1. The imagination and its obstacles. Harry Potter and the fear of not flying -- A book of virtues for the right-thinking left -- Seize the day job : sacrificing Saul Bellow on the altar of one's own career -- Persecution and the art of painting -- Pt. 2. Faking it. Prophets of profit : how artists slyly critique their wealthy patrons -- From Stalin to SoHo -- Barbara Kinsolver's icy virtue -- Television and the Pope -- Updike's Bech -- The new king of irony -- Pt. 3. Love me tonight? D.H. Lawrence and the romantic option -- Who is Carrie Bradshaw really dating? -- The gay science : queer theory, literature, and the sexualization of everything -- Eyes wide shut : what the critics failed to see in Kubrick's last film -- García Lorca and the flight from desire -- Pt. 4. Life in the palm of art's hand. Dante and the subversive ego -- Sunday's with the Sopranos -- A writer who is good for you -- Bernard Malamud and the comprehending heart -- The second coming of Richard Yates -- Chekhov's "Cheap white bone." |
| Notes: |
Includes index. |
| ISBN: |
0465078001 (alk. paper)
9780465078004 (alk. paper) |
| LCCN: |
2006024173 |
| Url for this record: |
http://sherloc.imcpl.org/?itemid=|library/marc/dynix|1085270
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| Bib No.: |
1085270 |
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