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This new edition of Contemporaries and Snobs, a landmark collection of essays by Laura Riding, offers a counter-history of high modernist poetics.   Laura Riding’s Contemporaries and Snobs (1928) was the first volume of essays to engage critically with high modernist poetics from the position...

Federico García Lorca trató de restablecer el mensaje evangélico y para ello se propuso ofrecer en su obra un quinto evangelio. Los escritos juveniles del poeta granadino proyectan sobre la totalidad de su obra un marcado relieve de heterodoxia sociorreligiosa encaminada a la propagación...

不要溫和地走進那方異境 讓生活撐開以惡與暴烈 讓生命脹大以時空的薄膜 有時，毀滅反而 成為詩意與哲學再生的契機 「我將向黑暗裏彷徨於無地。」──魯迅《影的告別》如是說。 繼《異托邦指南／閱讀卷：魅與祛魅》後，廖偉棠新作《異托邦指南／電影卷：影的告白》，入影入戲！ 如果影會告白，它將向你描述何謂「無地」。廖偉棠以詩人特有的視角，挖掘潛藏在影像聲光背後那些難以描述、讓觀者耿耿於懷的神祕領域，在最豐厚的溫柔上，細緻、銳利地述說電影的暗面，刻畫你我都熟悉的影與人。 《異托邦指南／電影卷：影的告白》分為三輯，第一輯放眼西方與東洋，以幽暗曖昧的科幻宇宙為起點，逐漸聚焦在人間的生與死、故鄉與遠行的永恆主題，探求靈魂深處最原初的意義，讓我們在《地心引力》的幽冥太空遙望過去與未來，跟著少年Pi一同漂流。 第二輯將眼光拉近，凝視中國風起雲湧的人世，娓娓道來激盪其中的愛與憎，看張藝謀、陳凱歌、賈樟柯等人影像中的河山。 到了第三輯，我們得以一窺最廖偉棠最近身的場域，描繪香港、台灣的觀影風貌，談《艋舺》的在地經驗、談張國榮與梅艷芳、談周星馳，也談詩人周夢蝶，藉由聲光色彩的迷離，書寫明明踏實生活其中卻始終如異邦的疏離。 無論是借古諷今、借影說光、借刀殺人，這一張觀影地圖都試圖在銀幕世界之上創造一個平行宇宙，讓你在演員謝幕之後開始一場新的文字冒險之旅。 ※...

Considéré dans ce texte: Girls et Lena Dunham. L’étiquette en matière de sexe à la télé. La vingtaine. Le Gatorade, la limonade et les expériences de vie significatives.

This book is a quest to understand Van Morrison's particular genius through a close look at the most extraordinary and unclassifiable moments in his long career, beginning in 1965 and continuing in full force to this day: sometimes entire songs, sometimes single words or even the guttural spaces between words that become musical events in themselves.

‘Morgoth Uncursed” ist die von der Band erzählte und von Christian Krumm niedergeschriebene faszinierende Biographie der größten deutschen Death Metal Band. Neben vielen Anekdoten aus ihrem Privat- und Bandleben ist dieses Buch mit unzähligen Privatfotos und unveröffentlichten Material ausgestattet....

The life and labors of D. S. Warner are so closely associated with a religious movement that any attempt at his biography becomes in part necessarily a history of that movement. I have therefore chosen the term, Birth of a Reformation, as a part of the title of this book. Brother Warner (to use an...

Will Friedwald’s illuminating, opinionated essays—provocative, funny, and personal—on the lives and careers of more than three hundred singers anatomize the work of the most important jazz and popular performers of the twentieth century. From giants like Ella Fitzgerald, Louis Armstrong, Frank...

When George Klein was an eighth grader at Humes High, he couldn’t have known how important the new kid with the guitar—the boy named Elvis—would later become in his life. But from the first time GK (as he was nicknamed by Elvis) heard this kid sing, he knew that Elvis Presley was someone extraordinary....

Jan Swafford’s biographies of Charles Ives and Johannes Brahms have established him as a revered music historian, capable of bringing his subjects vibrantly to life. His magnificent new biography of Ludwig van Beethoven peels away layers of legend to get to the living, breathing human being who...

The complete history of one of the most long-lived and legendary bands in rock history, written by its official historian and publicist–a must-have chronicle for all Dead Heads, and for students of rock and the 1960s’ counterculture. From 1965 to 1995, the Grateful Dead flourished as one...

FULLY REVISED AND UPDATED. “The coolest class on campus” – The New York Times When the Nobel Prize for Literature was awarded to Bob Dylan in 2016, a debate raged. Some celebrated, while many others questioned the choice. How could the world’s most prestigious book prize be awarded...

Eminent historian Paul Johnson dazzles with a rich, succinct portrait of Mozart and his music As he’s done in Napoleon, Churchill, Jesus, and Darwin, acclaimed historian and author Paul Johnson here offers a concise, illuminating biography of Mozart. Johnson’s focus is on the music—Mozart’s...

From the bestselling author of Love Is a Mix Tape and Turn Around Bright Eyes, "a funny, insightful look at the sublime torture of adolescence".—Entertainment Weekly The 1980s meant MTV and John Hughes movies, big dreams and bigger shoulder pads, and millions of teen girls who nursed crushes...