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ISBN 10: 0786735511

ISBN 13: 9780786735518

Author:  Lee Siegel 

Falling upwards: essays in defense of the imagination 1st Edition: Sex and the City, Saul Bellow, Eyes Wide Shut, Dante and the American self, Barbara Kingsolver, acting in Hollywood, Soviet painting in Soho, Angels in America, Jane Austen in the present, J.K. Rowling — nothing escapes Lee Siegel’s incandescent eye. Siegel possesses an intellectual range and independent perspective unmatched by his peers, and Falling Upwards brings together the best of his essays, all of them rich with the trades mark wit and intelligence that have won him many friends and a few enemies. In these essential writings, Siegel deftly uses the occasion of a book, film, painting, or television show not merely to appraise it, but to make sense of life in a way that is more defiant of impoverished cultural “norms” than most contemporary artistic expression. Guided by the belief that a calculating self-interest in art-making diminishes the prospects for the imagination in life, Siegel celebrates authentic sensibilities and lambasts manufactured sentiments. With uncanny insight, yet also with incomparable logic and analytical rigor, he has invented a new idiom in which the language of criticism embodies the playful, creative, synthesizing power that has been largely abdicated by the arts in our time. In writing about works of culture, Siegel has created a standard by which to judge them.

 

Falling upwards: essays in defense of the imagination 1st Edition Table of contents:

Part One: The Imagination and Its Obstacles

• Harry Potter and The Fear of Not Flying
• A Book of Virtues For The Right-Thinking Left
• Seize The Day Job: Sacrificing Saul Bellow on The Altar of One’s Own Career
• Persecution and The Art of Painting

Part Two: Faking It

• Prophets of Profit: How Artists Slyly Critique Their Wealthy Patrons
• From Stalin To Soho
• Barbara Kingsolver’s Icy Virtue
• Television and The Pope
• Updike’s Bech
• The New King of Irony

Part Three: Love Me Tonight?

• D. H. Lawrence and The Romantic Option
• Who Is Carrie Bradshaw Really Dating?
• The Gay Science: Queer Theory, Literature, and The Sexualization of Everything
• Eyes Wide Shut: What The Critics Failed To See In Kubrick’s Last Film
• García Lorca and The Flight From Desire

Part Four: Life In The Palm of Art’s Hand

• Dante and The Subversive Ego
• Sundays With The Sopranos
• A Writer Who Is Good For You
• Bernard Malamud and The Comprehending Heart
• The Second Coming of Richard Yates
• Chekhov’s “Cheap White Bone”

 

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