American Rococo: Essays on the Edge
of Isham Cook (Goodreads Author)
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What do seashells, obesity, graffiti, and the American ghetto have in common? Nude hot springs and the Japanese theater? Atheists and family-values conservatives? Why do atheists go on religious pilgrimages? How have schools infantilized our understanding of Shakespeare, and the textbook industry conspired to turn our language's history into agitprop? What is the single most dangerous sexual idea that even the liberated can't handle? Ranging across centuries and continents, Isham Cook's far-flung essays, whether discoursing on the most radical or homespun of topics, are guided by the notion of the -edge.- The edge represents the limits of conventional understanding, the zone beyond stereotypes and groupthink; it is where received ideas are recast in fresh and striking ways.
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- Format Paperback
- Pages 240 pages
- Publisher Isham Cook
- Publication Date March 16th 2017
- First Publication Not informed
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- ISBN 9780986293498
- Edition Not informed
- Category Non-Fiction
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