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Cigarette lighter /

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.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Pendarvis, Jack, 1963- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Inc, [2016]
Series:Object lessons.
Subjects:
Cigar lighters > Social aspects > United States.
Smoking > Social aspects > United States.
Popular culture > United States.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Semiotics & Theory.
PHILOSOPHY > Aesthetics.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Media Studies.
Table of Contents:
  • Welcome to the National Lighter Museum
  • Personalized
  • The disposability of the permanent; the permanence of the disposable
  • Masters of fire
  • Smoke 'em if you've got 'em
  • What have we learned so far?
  • Strike anywhere
  • In cars
  • Strange intimacy
  • About these little things.