Cigarette Lighter: Object Lessons - Brossura

Pendarvis, Jack

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1501307363 ISBN 13: 9781501307362

Casa editrice: Bloomsbury Academic, 2016

Riassunto

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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Informazioni sull?autore

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.

Dalla quarta di copertina

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.

Dettagli dell?edizione

• Editore: Bloomsbury Academic
• Data di pubblicazione: 2016
• ISBN 10: 1501307363
• ISBN 13: 9781501307362
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Lingua: Inglese
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 152
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile