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COM.ONIXSUITE.9780872863545 03 01 City Lights Books 01 GCOI 87286100735310 02 0872863549 03 9780872863545 15 9780872863545 BC <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText>The Monstrous and the Marvelous</TitleText> <TitlePrefix>The</TitlePrefix> <TitleWithoutPrefix>Monstrous and the Marvelous</TitleWithoutPrefix> 1 A01 Ducornet, Rikki Rikki Ducornet Rikki Ducornet has a gift for combining the horrific with the hilarious, the realistic with the fantastic. Through a wildly inventive narrative, Entering Fire scrutinizes the sources of fascist mentality in nations and, potentially, in all humans. 01 eng 124 00 124 03 03 0 03 24 Internet CL Hierarchy Art, Music, Cinema & Drama 24 Internet CL Hierarchy Essays 01 With the great Renaissance voyages to the New World came the popularity of Wunderkammern, or cabinets of wonders, in which newly discovered monsters and marvels could be displayed. Like such a cabinet, this collection of essays surveys the monstrous and the marvelous - as transmuted in the alembic of Rikki Ducornet's open-hearted vision - in literature, art, and film. For her, excess anomaly, and heterodoxy entice the imagining mind to embrace "otherness," enlarge the world, and regenerate Eden.Ducornet playfully investigates works of literature, art, and film that create ruptures in our sense of normality. ...[She] shows how the road of excess indeed leads to the palace of wisdom. Most important, however, her ability to transfix and communicate her sense of wonder becomes wondrous in itself, making these essays read with the same quirky delight as her fiction."-Rain TaxiTable of Contents:Waking to Eden Optical Terror The Impossible Genus On Returning from Chiapas Alphabets and Emperors Optical Pleasure Haunting by Water Mapping Paris The Monstrous and the Marvelous The Death Cunt of Deep Dell Sortilege Books of Nature A Dream Manifesto in Voices Acknowledgments Bibliography 02 With the great Renaissance voyages to the New World came the popularity of Wunderkammern, or cabinets of wonders, in which newly discovered monsters and marvels could be displayed. Like such a cabinet, this collection of essays surveys the monstrous... 04 Table of Contents:Waking to Eden Optical Terror The Impossible Genus On Returning from Chiapas Alphabets and Emperors Optical Pleasure Haunting by Water Mapping Paris The Monstrous and the Marvelous The Death Cunt of Deep Dell Sortilege Books of Nature A Dream Manifesto in Voices Acknowledgments Bibliography 08 Ducornet playfully investigates works of literature, art, and film that create ruptures in our sense of normality. ...[She] shows how the road of excess indeed leads to the palace of wisdom. Most important, however, her ability to transfix and communicate her sense of wonder becomes wondrous in itself, making these essays read with the same quirky delight as her fiction." Rain Taxi 08 "Rikki Ducornet is a writer fascinated by the ways the concrete and illusory can be interwoven. [In this] quietly resplendent book of essays . . . she manages to create her own cabinet of marvels as she infects her readers with the sweet venom of language." Bart Schneider The Ruminator (formerly The Hungry Mind Review) 04 03 72 01 http://www.citylights.com/resources/titles/87286100735310/images/87286100735310L.jpg 07 03 72 01 http://www.citylights.com/resources/titles/87286100735310/images/87286100735310S.jpg http://www.citylights.com/book/?GCOI=87286100735310 City Lights Publishers 01 City Lights Publishers 19990801 01 8 in 02 6 in 08 16 oz City Lights Books 01 WORLD 20 19990801 01 02 12.95 USD