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Paul Auster and the Influence of Maurice Blanchot - Maria Laura Arce - Bog - McFarland & Co Inc - Plusbog.dk

Paul Auster and the Influence of Maurice Blanchot - Maria Laura Arce - Bog - McFarland & Co Inc - Plusbog.dk

Poet, writer and filmmaker Paul Auster is one of the great contributors to American postmodern literature. Influenced by authors like Poe and the hardboiled detective stories of the 1950s, Auster''s novels represented a new genre of "anti-detective fiction," in which the case itself loses direction and is overshadowed by existential questions. Analyzing three of his novels-- Ghosts (1986), The Music of Chance (1990) and Mr. Vertigo (1994)--this critical study explores the intertextual relationship between Auster''s work and the oeuvre of French writer and critic Maurice Blanchot. The author explores Auster''s work as a fictionalization of Blanchot''s concept of inspiration and the construction of imaginary space.

DKK 523.00
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Paul Auster's Postmodernity - Brendan Martin - Bog - Taylor & Francis Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Paul Auster's Postmodernity - Brendan Martin - Bog - Taylor & Francis Ltd - Plusbog.dk

This book focuses upon the literary and autobiographical writings of American novelist Paul Auster, investigating his literary postmodernity in relation to a full range of his writings. Martin addresses Auster’s evocation of a range of postmodern notions, such as the duplicitous art of self-invention, the role of chance and contingency, authorial authenticity and accountability, urban dislocation, and the predominance of duality.

DKK 576.00
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Windows on Central Park - Betsy Pinover Schiff - Bog - Schiffer Publishing Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Windows on Central Park - Betsy Pinover Schiff - Bog - Schiffer Publishing Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Unique perspectives on New York City's 843-acre Central Park, viewed exclusively from windows and terraces surrounding it. Over 140 photographs range from intimate fourth-floor scenes to sweeping vistas from 64 stories above Central Park in this book. The principal photographer of six books on gardens and landscape architecture, author Betsy Pinover Schiff concentrates on the landscape of Central Park, revealing its beauty from above during all four seasons, from early morning to night. Schiff's journey took her to more than 100 apartments, offices, hotels, and museums over the course of five years. This book includes quotes by sixteen notable individuals about their experiences of looking down from their windows to the Park, including Giorgio Armani, Candice Bergen, Paul Goldberger, Evelyn Lauder, Donald Trump, and Elie Wiesel. Windows on Central Park will strengthen one’s sense of the grandeur and beauty of America’s most visited park, and reveal the Park as a towering example of both urban ecology and landscape architecture.

DKK 397.00
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thirtysomething - Albert Auster - Bog - Lexington Books - Plusbog.dk

thirtysomething - Albert Auster - Bog - Lexington Books - Plusbog.dk

thirtysomething: Television, Women, Men and Work examines one of television''s most emotionally and culturally resonant programs and the many themes it contained. Addressing what it means to be a modern woman and the many corollary issues that revolve around the lives of the series'' major women characters, thirtysomething explores female friendships and sexuality, male/female relationships, and the relationship of women to work and domestic life. Just as the women reflected the dilemmas of contemporary femininity, the men in the series represented many of the problems of modern masculinity at a time of great flux in traditional male roles. thirtysomething discusses how the series dealt with the roles of husbands and fathers, the nature of male sexuality, and the complex tensions that exist in male friendships. Authors Albert Auster and Leonard Quart view the television series as a program that not only provided a penetrating and imaginative portrait of the nature of marriage, friendship and career, but also is a conduit to understanding a particular urban-suburban American class culture and lifestyle during the late eighties and early nineties.

DKK 423.00
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thirtysomething - Albert Auster - Bog - Lexington Books - Plusbog.dk

thirtysomething - Albert Auster - Bog - Lexington Books - Plusbog.dk

thirtysomething: Television, Women, Men and Work examines one of television''s most emotionally and culturally resonant programs and the many themes it contained. Addressing what it means to be a modern woman and the many corollary issues that revolve around the lives of the series'' major women characters, thirtysomething explores female friendships and sexuality, male/female relationships, and the relationship of women to work and domestic life. Just as the women reflected the dilemmas of contemporary femininity, the men in the series represented many of the problems of modern masculinity at a time of great flux in traditional male roles. thirtysomething discusses how the series dealt with the roles of husbands and fathers, the nature of male sexuality, and the complex tensions that exist in male friendships. Authors Albert Auster and Leonard Quart view the television series as a program that not only provided a penetrating and imaginative portrait of the nature of marriage, friendship and career, but also is a conduit to understanding a particular urban-suburban American class culture and lifestyle during the late eighties and early nineties.

DKK 768.00
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Paul Auster's Writing Machine - Evija Trofimova - Bog - Bloomsbury Publishing Plc - Plusbog.dk

Paul Auster's Writing Machine - Evija Trofimova - Bog - Bloomsbury Publishing Plc - Plusbog.dk

Paul Auster is one of the most acclaimed figures in American literature. Known primarily as a novelist, Auster’s films and various collaborations are now gaining more recognition. Evija Trofimova offers a radically different approach to the author’s wider body of work, unpacking the fascinating web of relationships between his texts and presenting Auster’s canon as a rhizomatic facto-fictional network produced by a set of writing tools. Exploring Auster’s literal and figurative use of these tools – the typewriter , the cigarette , the doppelgänger figure, the city – Evija Trofimova discovers Auster’s “writing machine”, a device that works both as a means to write and as a construct that manifests the emblematic writer-figure. This is a book about assembling texts and textual networks, the writing machines that produce them, and the ways such machines invest them with meaning. Embarking on a scholarly quest that takes her from between the lines of Auster’s work to between the streets of his beloved New York and finally to the man himself, Paul Auster’s Writing Machine becomes not just a critical investigation but a critical collaboration, raising important questions about the ultimate meaning of Auster''s work, and about the relationship between texts, their authors, their readers and their critics.

DKK 435.00
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Marginalisation and Utopia in Paul Auster, Jim Jarmusch and Tom Waits - Adriano Tedde - Bog - Taylor & Francis Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Marginalisation and Utopia in Paul Auster, Jim Jarmusch and Tom Waits - Adriano Tedde - Bog - Taylor & Francis Ltd - Plusbog.dk

This book explores how three contemporary American artists through the mediums of film, literature and popular music have contributed to the tradition of American progressivism, and provides an invaluable companion to the understanding of complex issues such as inequality and social and economic decline that are apparent in America today. Connecting the works of these artists through a fictional country – the ‘Other America’ – the book shows how they have refuted middle-class values and goals of success, money and social affirmation to unveil the less celebrated, dark side of contemporary America, which, despite the troubles currently faced, never loses hope for a better future. This utopic vision in the face of adversity is explored through the plots, characters and mis-en-scène of Auster and Jarmusch’s work and Waits’s lyrics and sound. This vision challenges the dominant narratives of America as the land of opportunity and values democracy, civic engagement, communitarianism and egalitarianism. Offering an important new perspective to literature on contemporary American culture, this book will be of interest to students and scholars of American studies, film studies, popular music, postmodern literature, cultural studies and sociology.

DKK 429.00
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Tommy's Sunset - Hisako Tsurushima - Bog - Lexington Books - Plusbog.dk

Tommy's Sunset - Hisako Tsurushima - Bog - Lexington Books - Plusbog.dk

Tommy''s Sunset is a translation of the acclaimed Japanese novel about the journey of a mother and her autistic child. Drawing from her own personal life story, Hisako Tsurushima has provided a definitive work about the problems and surprising joys for the autistic and those who love them. Readers experience the range of emotions as Tommy and his mother are routinely embarrassed in social situations and share delight in private moments. As she lovingly describes these characters, Tsurushima ultimately investigates the source of our social responses to people who are in any way different than ourselves. Tommy''s Sunset was the basis for the Japanese Film Gakko III, which was shown in the United States under the title The New Voyage. Tommy''s Sunset is a deceptively simple novel that will leave readers with a lasting impression and a new outlook on what it means to be different.

DKK 423.00
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Deconstructing South Park - Brian Cogan - Bog - Lexington Books - Plusbog.dk

Deconstructing South Park - Brian Cogan - Bog - Lexington Books - Plusbog.dk

Deconstructing South Park: Critical Examinations of Animated Transgression is an edited collection by Brian Cogan that looks at the long and controversial run of one of the most subversive programs on television. South Park, while denounced by many as simply scatological, is actually one of the most nuanced and thoughtful programs on television. The contributors to South Park reveal that, through the lens of four foul-mouthed nine year olds, Trey Parker and Matt Stone have created one of the most astute forms of social and political commentary in television history. Deconstructing South Park, itself the most ambitious deconstruction of popular culture to date, analyzes how South Park is not only entertainment, but a commentary on American culture that tackles controversial issues far beyond the depth of most television. Specifically, the medium of animated sitcom allows the show's creators to contribute to cultural conversations regarding disability studies, religion, sexuality, celebrity, and more. If South Park deconstructs American culture, then Cogan and his contributors deconstruct the deconstructionists and reveal South Park in all its hilarious and often contradictory complexity.

DKK 441.00
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Perito Moreno National Park - Antonio Vizcaino - Bog - Oro Editions - Plusbog.dk

Perito Moreno National Park - Antonio Vizcaino - Bog - Oro Editions - Plusbog.dk

Where the windswept Patagonian steppe meets the Andes, and the massive unclimbed south wall of Cerro San Lorenzo looks down on the Lacteo Valley, a visitor understands: Perito Moreno National Park is a stronghold of wild nature. In a region so alluring that is has become synonymous with beauty at the end of the Earth, Perito Moreno National Park is an icon of Patagonia. Named in honour of revered early conservationist Perito Moreno, the "John Muir of Argentina", this relatively little visited park is a magnet for intrepid travellers and ambitious alpinists. In a book as grand as the natural area it celebrates, Perito Moreno National Park presents a stunning collection of images of the park by renowned landscape photographer Antonio Vizcaíno. With supporting essays from experts on the park''s natural and cultural history, this elegant volume offers an armchair tour of one of the world''s most scenic and unsullied landscapes. Legendary businessman and philanthropist Douglas Tompkins (founder of The North Face) contributes the book''s foreword. In a dramatic gesture that expanded the park in 2013, Tompkins donated a key private inholding in Perito Moreno to the Argentine national parks administration. For all of those who dream of Patagonia, Perito Moreno National Park is a ticket into the heart of the wild.

DKK 460.00
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Living Cities - Matthew Skjonsberg - Bog - Park Books - Plusbog.dk

Living Cities - Matthew Skjonsberg - Bog - Park Books - Plusbog.dk

The creation of park systems is a historically proven method for communities to stabilise and cultivate healthy ecological habitats in country dwellings as well as in dense urban areas. Park systems ensure clean soil, water, and air for all. Moreover, they offer inter-generational and inclusive recreational opportunities along ecological corridors. Between 1900 and 1950, civic design — a practice in urban and landscape planning explicitly oriented towards the common good — experienced a heyday. Park systems were successfully used as “green armatures” hosting public facilities such as playgrounds, schools, administrative buildings, hospitals, and gardens. Living Cities offers a chronological survey of civic design based on more than 30 park systems on five continents. The examples range from Johann Wolfgang von Goethe''s Park an der Ilm in Weimar (1778) and John Nash’s Regent Street in London (1806) to Chicago’s park system (1850), Albert Bodmer and Maurice Braillard’s plans for Geneva (1936), and Frank Lloyd Wright’s Taliesin Valley (1947), as well as to contemporary and future projects in Addis Ababa, Madrid, Medellín, New York, and Seoul. Matthew Skjonsberg’s book demonstrates the ecological and social impact of park systems and highlights the diverse challenges that communities face when implementing such projects. At the same time, it encourages a re-evaluation of civic design as an inter-generational practice of urban design.

DKK 486.00
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America's National Park System - Lary M. Dilsaver - Bog - Rowman & Littlefield - Plusbog.dk

America's National Park System - Lary M. Dilsaver - Bog - Rowman & Littlefield - Plusbog.dk

Now in a fully updated edition, this invaluable reference work is a fundamental resource for scholars, students, conservationists, and citizens interested in America''s national park system. The extensive collection of documents illustrates the system''s creation, development, and management. The documents include laws that established and shaped the system; policy statements on park management; Park Service self-evaluations; and outside studies by a range of scientists, conservation organizations, private groups, and businesses. A new appendix includes summaries of pivotal court cases that have further interpreted the Park Service mission.

DKK 565.00
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Performing Authorship - Sonja Longolius - Bog - Transcript Verlag - Plusbog.dk

Performing Authorship - Sonja Longolius - Bog - Transcript Verlag - Plusbog.dk

Authors not only create artworks. In the process of creating, they simultaneously bring to life their author personae. Approaching this phenomenon from an interdisciplinary point of view, Sonja Longolius develops a concept of »performative authorship« by examining different strategies of becoming an author. In regard to the notion of her concept, this work offers a critical and comparative analysis of the works of Paul Auster, Candice Breitz, Sophie Calle, and Jonathan Safran Foer. Specifically, Auster/Calle and Breitz/Foer form a generational pair of opposites, enabling a discussion of postmodern and post-postmodern artistic strategies of »performative authorship«.

DKK 470.00
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