Binding: Paperback
Description: Essays considering what it means to love art culture and people in an age of accelerating disaster. This is a book about loving things - books songs people - in the shadow of a felt looming disaster. Through lyrical funny heart - wrenching essays Peter Coviello considers pieces of culture across a fantastic range setting them inside the vivid scenes of friendship dispute romance talk and loss where they enter our lives. Alongside him we reencounter movies like The Shining shows like The Sopranos; videos; poems; novels by Sam Lipsyte Sally Rooney and Paula Fox; as well as songs by Joni Mitchell Gladys Knight Steely Dan Pavement and the much - mourned saint of Minneapolis Prince. Navigating an overwhelming feeling that Coviello calls "endstrickenness " he asks what it means to love things in calamitous times when so much seems to be shambling toward collapse. Balancing comedy and anger exhilaration and sorrow Coviello illuminates the strange ways the things we cherish help us to hold on to life and to its turbulent joys. Is There God after Prince? shows us what twenty - first - century criticism can be and how it might speak to us in a time of ruin in an age of " Last Things."
Title: Is There God After Prince? Dispatches From An Age Of Last Things
Author(s): Coviello Peter
Publisher: The University Of Chicago Press
Barcode: 9780226828084
Pages: 304 Pages
Publication Date: 10/6/2023
Category: Literary Essays