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PublisherSemiotexte The Limited

ISBN-101584350342

ISBN-139781584350347

eBay Product ID (ePID)56971304

Product Key Features

Book TitleI Love Dick

Number of Pages280 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2006

TopicContemporary Women, Humorous / General

GenreFiction

AuthorChris Kraus

Book SeriesSemiotext (E) / Native Agents Ser.

FormatPerfect

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Item Height0.7 in

Item Weight13.7 Oz

Item Length9 in

Item Width6.1 in

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LCCN2002-514685

ReviewsEver since I read I Love Dick , I have revered it as one of the most explosive, revealing, lacerating, and unusual memoirs ever committed to the page... I Love Dick is never a comfortable read, and it is by turns exasperating, horrifying, and lurid, but it is never less than genuine, and often completely illuminating about the life of the mind., But my favorite example of the genre is from nearly 20 years ago, and it's by a woman. Chris Kraus's 'I Love Dick' offers the story of a woman named Chris Kraus--also an experimental filmmaker, just like the author--reckoning with her unrequited love for 'Dick ____,' a cultural critic with whom she becomes obsessed. The narrative is an exploration of desire as something other than passivity or inadequacy ('I think desire isn't lack, it's surplus energy--a claustrophobia inside your skin') and relentless romantic pursuit not as self-degradation but a kind of generative, creative act., But my favorite example of the genre is from nearly 20 years ago, and it's by a woman. Chris Kraus's 'I Love Dick' offers the story of a woman named Chris Kraus -- also an experimental filmmaker, just like the author -- reckoning with her unrequited love for 'Dick ____,' a cultural critic with whom she becomes obsessed. The narrative is an exploration of desire as something other than passivity or inadequacy ('I think desire isn't lack, it's surplus energy -- a claustrophobia inside your skin') and relentless romantic pursuit not as self-degradation but a kind of generative, creative act., "Ever since I read I Love Dick , I have revered it as one of themost explosive, revealing, lacerating, and unusual memoirs ever committed to the page... ILove Dick is never a comfortable read, and it is by turns exasperating, horrifying, andlurid, but it is never less than genuine, and often completely illuminating about the life of themind." Rick Moody Post Road, "Ever since I read I Love Dick , I have revered it as one of the most explosive, revealing, lacerating, and unusual memoirs ever committed to the page... I Love Dick is never a comfortable read, and it is by turns exasperating, horrifying, and lurid, but it is never less than genuine, and often completely illuminating about the life of the mind." Rick Moody Post Road, "A clever, finely crafted crossover between life, love and cultural studies." -- Peter Beilharz , The Australian, "Tart, brazen and funny. . . a cautionary tale, I Love Dickraises disturbing but compelling questions about female social behavior, power, control." - The Nation, The intelligence and honesty and total originality of Chris Kraus make her work not just great but indispensable -- especially now, when everything is so confusing, so full of despair. I read everything Chris Kraus writes; she softens despair with her brightness, and with incredible humor, too., "Tart, brazen and funny... a cautionary tale, I Love Dick raises disturbing but compelling questions about female social behavior, power, control." The Nation, The intelligence and honesty and total originality of Chris Kraus make her work not just great but indispensable--especially now, when everything is so confusing, so full of despair. I read everything Chris Kraus writes; she softens despair with her brightness, and with incredible humor, too., But my favorite example of the genre is from nearly 20 years ago, and it's by a woman. Chris Kraus's "I Love Dick" offers the story of a woman named Chris Kraus -- also an experimental filmmaker, just like the author -- reckoning with her unrequited love for "Dick ____," a cultural critic with whom she becomes obsessed. The narrative is an exploration of desire as something other than passivity or inadequacy ("I think desire isn't lack, it's surplus energy -- a claustrophobia inside your skin") and relentless romantic pursuit not as self-degradation but a kind of generative, creative act., Tart, brazen and funny... a cautionary tale, I Love Dick raises disturbing but compelling questions about female social behavior, power, control., "Tart, brazen and funny... a cautionary tale, I Love Dick raisesdisturbing but compelling questions about female social behavior, power, control." TheNation

Dewey Edition22

Grade FromCollege Graduate Student

Dewey Decimal813.54

SynopsisA self-described failed filmmaker falls obsessively in love with hertheorist-husband's colleague: a manifesto for a new kind of feminism and the power of first-personnarration., There is no time like the present. Is it also true that there is no time but the present? According to presentism, the present time is special in the most fundamental sense because all of reality is included in it. What is past is no longer; what is future is yet to be. This philosophy of time, with roots as far back as Saint Augustine and beyond, is the focus of vigorous and widespread discussion in contemporary philosophy. Presentism: Essential Readings brings together for the first time the seminal works by both presentists and their opponents. Works by Augustine, McTaggart, Prior, Craig and others, address a wide array of issues concerning presentism. How can time pass if everything is present? Is there no future to come to the present; nor a past to receive the present? How can there be truths about the past? Generally a statement is true because of events in reality. But if presentism is correct, then the past would seem to lack a basis in reality. If only the present is real, how can things last? To persist seems to require that something exist at more than one time, but presentism holds that there is only one time: the present. The collected essays on presentism address these and other aspects of the debate--a debate that is just beginning. With explanatory introductions written by the editors, Presentism: Essential Essays will fascinate and stretch the minds of both scholars and novices alike., A self-described failed filmmaker falls obsessively in love with her theorist-husband's colleague: a manifesto for a new kind of feminism and the power of first-person narration. In I Love Dick , published in 1997, Chris Kraus, author of Aliens & Anorexia , Torpor , and Video Green , boldly tore away the veil that separates fiction from reality and privacy from self-expression. It's no wonder that I Love Dick instantly elicited violent controversies and attracted a host of passionate admirers. The story is gripping enough: in 1994 a married, failed independent filmmaker, turning forty, falls in love with a well-known theorist and endeavors to seduce him with the help of her husband. But when the theorist refuses to answer her letters, the husband and wife continue the correspondence for each other instead, imagining the fling the wife wishes to have with Dick. What follows is a breathless pursuit that takes the woman across America and away from her husband and far beyond her original infatuation into a discovery of the transformative power of first person narrative. I Love Dick is a manifesto for a new kind of feminist who isn't afraid to burn through her own narcissism in order to assume responsibility for herself and for all the injustice in world and it's a book you won't put down until the author's final, heroic acts of self-revelation and transformation.

LC Classification NumberPS3561.R2873I15 1997