9780374104382 - The Shape of Things to Come: Prophecy And the American Voice von Marcus, Greil (17 Ergebnisse)

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hardcover. Zustand: near fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: very good(+). First. 320 pages, short 8vo, blue cloth, d.w. New York: Farrar Straus & Giroux, (2006). First edition. A near fine copy in a very good(+) dust wrapper.

Hardcover. Zustand: Like New. First Edition. First Edition, First Printing. Not price-clipped. Published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2006. Octavo. Hardcover. Book is like new. Dust jacket is like new.100% positive feedback. 30 day money back guarantee. NEXT DAY SHIPPING! Excellent customer service. Please email with any questions. All books packed carefully and ship with free delivery confirmation/tracking. All books come with free bookmarks. Ships from Sag Harbor, New York.

Soft cover. Zustand: As New. No Jacket. Special Edition. Advance Reading Copy of Uncorrected Proof in paperback. [First edition, 1st printing] FSG First Look Selection. Bright, clean & tight copy, unread, in AS NEW condition. Sharp corners & crisp edges, square binding w/no creases in spine & no age toning on pages. No jacket as issued. "America is a place and a story, made up of exuberance and suspicion, crime and liberation, Lynch mobs and escapes; its greatest testaments are made of portents and warnings, Biblical allusions that lose all their certainties in American air." [] "It is this story of self-invention and nationhood that Greil Marcus rediscovers, beginning with John Winthrop's invocation of America as a 'city on the hill,' Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address, and Martin Luther King Jr.'s speech about his American dream. Since [the 19th century] it has become cryptic, a story told more in art than in politics. Marcus traces it across the continent and through time, hearing the tale in the disparate voices of writers, filmmakers, performers and actors: Philip Roth, David Lynch, David Thomas [of Pere Ubu], Allen Ginsberg, Sheryl Lee and Bill Pullman. In THE SHAPE OF THINGS TO COME, the future and the past merge in extraordinary and uncanny ways, and Greil Marcus proves once again that he is our most original cultural critic." [] "His work is very likely the most imaginative criticism being done, but it's more than that: It's a light in dark times."---Luc Sante. "Greil Marcus is the Lew Archer of cultural criticism: clear-eyed, hard-headed, wearing his theory in a shoulder holster, willing to go anywhere and question everything, equally at ease in the mansions and mean streets of literature, art and music, haunted by the American past but absolutely engaged by our present as he relentlessly ferrets out and lays bare the secret connections and shared narratives among seemingly disparate characters and crimes."---Michael Chabon.

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Hardcover. Zustand: Brand New. 336 pages. 8.50x6.00x1.25 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Zustand: New. From the author of Mystery Train and Lipstick Traces, an exhilarating and provocative investigation of the tangle of American identity 'America is a place and a story, made up of exuberance and suspicion, crime and liberation, lynch mobs and escapes; its greatest testaments are made of portents and warnings, biblical allusions that lose all certainty in the American air.' It is this story of self-invention and nationhood that Greil Marcus rediscovers, beginning with John Winthrop's invocation of America as a 'city on the hill,' Lincoln's second inaugural address, and Martin Luther King Jr.'s speech about his American dream. Listening to these prophetic founding statements, Marcus explores America's promise as a New Jerusalem and the nature of its covenant: first with God, and then with its own citizens. In the nineteenth century, this vision of the nation's story was told in public as part of common discourse, to be fought over in plain speech and flights of gorgeous rhetoric. Since then, Marcus argues, it has become cryptic, a story told more in art than in politics. He traces it across the continent and through time, hearing the tale in the disparate voices of writers, filmmakers, performers, and actors: Philip Roth, David Lynch, David Thomas, Allen Ginsberg, Sheryl Lee, and Bill Pullman. In The Shape of Things to Come, the future and the past merge in extraordinary and uncanny ways, and Marcus proves once again that he is our most imaginative and original cultural critic.