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Author: Franciszka Themerson
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Published: 1962
Total Pages: 26
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Semantic Divertissements" is the charming 1962 artists' book by the late Polish-born, London-based writer, filmmaker and publisher Stefan Themerson and his artist wife Franciszka. Issued by his own Gaberbocchus Press, it presents ten collaborative works combining his amusing concrete poetry with her whimsical drawings
Author: E. S. Shaffer
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1990-09-27
Total Pages: 384
ISBN-13: 9780521390026
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume explores a theme that has become central in our time, as 'the death of God' is widely seen to be succeeded by 'the death of Man'. Our contributors set forth its urgency in a variety of contexts. Among these, Peter Stern gives the paradigmatic history of the bereft, damaged, and repudiated self in German philosophy and literature from Kleist to Ernst Jilnger. In 'Not I' Michael Edwards pursues the theological and psychological consequences of a self without substance. Peter France supplies a witty account of the marriage of self and commerce more at home in the eighteenth-century tradition of British empiricism, and the challenge of Rousseau's refusal of the terms of commerce. Raman Selden explores views of the self from the Romantics to the poststructuralists. Roger Cardinal probes the secret diary: is the genre a contradiction in terms? Stephen Bann explores the representations of Narcissus in recent psychoanalytic theory. Other contributors include Pierre Dupuy, David James, Julie Scott Meisami, Gregory Blue,Mark Ogden and A. D. Nuttall.
Author: Stefan Themerson
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Published: 1962
Total Pages: 16
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Published: 1975
Total Pages: 140
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Stefan Themerson
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 332
ISBN-13: 9781564783714
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAt times in his life, Tom Harris is a dull schoolboy, an apprentice barber, a delinquent husband, an old man with a monkey who drinks at the Green Man Pub, "il professore Harris" at the University of Genoa, and possibly a murderer. But the question of who the elusive Tom Harris really is, and what crimes he has really committed, obsesses the narrator of this novel. Tom Harris can perhaps be described as a sort of philosophical detective story, ingeniously plotted and wittily told with a stylistic virtuosity on par with the most playful works of Raymond Queneau.
Author: Stefan Themerson
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 228
ISBN-13: 9781564784179
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHobson's Island (so called because Mr. Hobson bought it, or did Mr. Hobson buy it because it was so called?) enjoyed decades of isolation in the Atlantic Ocean. For years, the caretakers lived there peacefully, with only a cow for company and an empty house to care for. But all is suddenly disrupted when a wave of unusual visitors arrive: a deposed African king fleeing a revolution, a Hobson descendant claiming ownership, government agents eyeing the nation-less real estate, and scientists looking to test a dangerous new invention. In typical Themerson fashion, the comic is wound up with the serious and let go to devastating effect. A clever and apt parodying of Cold War power plays and twisted science, Hobson's Island is a strangely touching, sympathetic, and emotional account of the families and individuals brought together and broken up by Hobson's Island.
Author: Marcin Giżycki
Publisher: M J S Books & Graphics
Published: 1993
Total Pages: 108
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Stefan Themerson
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 212
ISBN-13: 9781564784551
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhen an unknown black poodle inexplicably explodes in philosophy professor Timothy Chesterton-Brown's back yard--paralyzing the professor and killing his guest--the "mystery of the sardine" begins. Its solution will involve such unwitting detectives as a twelve-year-old mathematician, his mother, his beloved, a palmist named Miss Prentice, and a bureaucrat dubbed the Minister of Imponderabilia. The clues they unearth--drawing on logic, the occult, intuition, and everything in between--lead them far away from the tiny seaside town where they begin. We follow them to Majorca, Rome, Warsaw, and London, but in the end, the solution lies beyond even the furthest and most magical reaches of reason.
Author: Stefan Themerson
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Published: 1965
Total Pages: 120
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhy should a one-legged uncle be a less interesting phenomenon thant the three-legged Bayamus? How explain the triggering powers of dead words? These are the terrible questions which drive Bayamus and the Authos th the Bottle Party of enlightening sanity. Once on their way from the Theatre of Anatomy to the Theatre of Semantic Poetry, they travel fast into situations which, after a dassling series of shocks and surprises, reveal the truth you half expected.
