The other serious : essays for the new American generation /
The Other Serious: American Essays contains a motley assortment of reflections on the United States as anomaly. Among the many maneuvers in this collection are: A close reading of the light-obsessed "Star-Spangled Banner" alongside the gory French national anthem; an analysis of Jim Henson...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers,
[2015]
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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| Summary: | The Other Serious: American Essays contains a motley assortment of reflections on the United States as anomaly. Among the many maneuvers in this collection are: A close reading of the light-obsessed "Star-Spangled Banner" alongside the gory French national anthem; an analysis of Jim Henson's "Labyrinth" (1986) as a cryptofeminist fantasy, various forms of praise for oldness, dirt and boring things, a eulogy for the messy humanity in Richard Linklater's Slacker (1991) and reflections on awkwardness, distraction, the North-South divide, the legacy of the Enlightenment in America and Apple's goal to make its products totally invisible. Above all, this assemblage of essays proposes a framework for approaching life in our muddled nation with a joyful seriousness. |
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| Physical Description: | vii, 243 pages ; 22 cm. |
| ISBN: | 9780062320353 (hbk.) 0062320351 (hbk.) |