Cigarette Lighter: Object Lessons - Softcover

Buch 14 von 103: Object Lessons

Pendarvis, Jack

 
9781501307362: Cigarette Lighter: Object Lessons
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1501307363 ISBN 13: 9781501307362
Verlag: Bloomsbury Academic, 2016

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An eclectic and poetic exploration of the cigarette lighter and its association with romance, magic, art, science, immortality and death in literature and popular culture.

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Jack Pendarvis has published essays, book reviews, interviews and stories in McSweeney's, The LA Review of Books, and the New York Times, among other publications. He is a former columnist for The Believer and The Oxford American and is the author of two books of short stories and a novel. He recently received an Emmy for his work on the Peabody Award-winning show Adventure Time.

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Smokers, survivalists, teenagers, collectors…. The cigarette lighter is a charged, complex, yet often entirely disposable object that moves across these various groups of people, acquiring and emitting different meanings while always supplying its primary function, that of ignition. While the lighter may seem at first a niche object-only for old fashioned cigarette smokers-in this book Jack Pendarvis explodes the lighter as something with deep history, as something with quirky episodes in cultural contexts, and as something that dances with wide ranging taboos and traditions. Pendarvis shows how the lighter tarries with the cheapest ends of consumer culture as much as it displays more profound dramas of human survival, technological advances, and aesthetics.

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Verlag
Bloomsbury Academic
Erscheinungsdatum
2016
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1501307363
ISBN 13 
9781501307362
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Taschenbuch
Auflage
1
Anzahl der Seiten
152
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