Pedalexodus - 7 Angebote vergleichen

Lieferung aus: Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika, Lagernd.
Selling most of my material possessions, I leave a crumbling existence in America to live in Poland just for the experience of living there. During the first icy-cold winter I endure my worst personal depression ever. The following summer there I took my first bicycling trip wearing a ridiculous full backpack. It became the inception for my touring trip in America and my buddy bucket list which would be a near failure. The idea for writing this book came nearly at the same time as the idea for the bicycle trip. I had wanted to write about Poland, and friends would ask, What will you tell your friends about Polish people? I would say You'll have to read it in my book. I return to the Midwest United States to revisit Chicago, briefly, then revisit my hometown in Southwest Michigan. I became less and less motivated to see my old friends from my buddy bucket list, and more motivated to prepare and save money for the bicycle trip. Finally I take the damn trip, I must admit, I never really had a plan, just hopes that things would fit together.

Lieferung aus: Vereinigtes Königreich Grossbritannien und Nordirland, in-stock.
Fiction. "The book's title, 'Return to Circa '96,' caught my attention right off. Themes of memory, time travel, and so forth were evoked. Then the visual appeal was quite marked (my professional and personal interests tilt in favor of scripto-visual works). The 'data-base aesthetics' (Lev Manovich) aspect of the work gave it a very contemporary Web 2.0 kind of technological relevance, which meshed well with the book's meta- fictional construction. These conceptual art-ish and surfictional elements lured me into the book. The library-as-a-framing-device, situating events within a repository of texts, hit a responsive chord given my own autodidactic / academic propensities. I felt at home in the text. The producer's mixtures of modalities of writing, a 'mulligan stew' of different textualities, were attributes of the kinds of works I read and re-read most often. Finally, the book was funny. It not only gave that 'writerly' jouissance touted by literary theorist Roland Barthes, but also the plaisir of a 'readerly' text. In short, in opening Mr. Sawatzki's book, it was as if I'd found a long-lost friend." James R. Hugunin.

Lieferung aus: Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika, Lagernd, zzgl. Versandkosten.
The book's title, Return to Circa '96', caught my attention right off. Themes of memory, time travel, and so forth were evoked. Then the visual appeal was quite marked (my professional and personal interests tilt in favor of scripto-visual works). The data-base aesthetics (Lev Manovich) aspect of the work gave it a very contemporary Web 2.0 kind of technological relevance, which meshed well with the book's meta-fictional construction. These conceptual art-ish and surfictional elements lured me into the book. The library-as-a-framing-device, situating events within a repository of texts, hit a responsive chord given my own autodidactic / academic propensities. I felt at home in the text. The producer's mixtures of modalities of writing, a mulligan stew of different textualities, were attributes of the kinds of works I read and re-read most often. Finally, the book was funny. It not only gave that writerly jouissance touted by literary theorist Roland Barthes, but also the plaisir of a readerly text. In short, in opening Mr. Sawatzki's book, it was as if I'd found a long-lost friend. -- James R. Hugunin.

Lieferung aus: Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika, In Stock.
Return-to-Circa-96~~Bob-Sawatzki, Return to Circa '96, Paperback.

Lieferung aus: Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika, In Stock.
Pedalexodus~~Curt-Sawatzki, Pedalexodus, NOOK Book (eBook).