Reality Hunger: A Manifesto - Couverture rigide

Shields, David

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 024114499X ISBN 13 : 9780241144992

Editeur : Hamish Hamilton, 2010

Synopsis

Reality Hunger is a manifesto for a burgeoning group of interrelated but unconnected artists who, living in an unbearably artificial world, are breaking ever larger chunks of 'reality' into their work. The questions Shields explores - the bending of form and genre, the lure and blur of the real - play out constantly around us, and Reality Hunger is a radical reframing of how we might think about this 'truthiness': about literary licence, quotation, and appropriation in television, film, performance art, rap, and graffiti, in lyric essays, prose poems, and collage novels.

Drawing on myriad sources, Shields takes an audacious stance on issues that are being fought over now and will be fought over far into the future. Converts will see Reality Hunger as a call to arms; detractors will view it as an occasion to defend the status quo. It is certain to be one of the most controversial and talked about books of the season.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

David Shields is the author of several previous books, including Dead Languages: A Novel in Stories and, most recently, the 2008 New York Times bestseller The Thing About Life Is That One Day You'll be Dead. www.davidshields.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Hamish Hamilton
• Date d'édition: 2010
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 024114499X
• ISBN 13: 9780241144992
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 240
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible