Afterlives of the Saints - Stories from the Ends of Faith

Informationen zum Autor Colin Dickey is the author of Cranioklepty: Grave Robbing and the Search for Genius. His fiction and nonfiction have appeared in Lapham's Quarterly, Cabinet, TriQuarterly, and The Santa Monica Review. He is also coeditor (with Nicole Antebi and Robby Herbst) of Failure! Experiments in Aesthetic and Social Practices. Klappentext "Afterlives of the Saints" is a woven gathering of groundbreaking essays that move through Renaissance anatomy and the Sistine Chapel, Borges' "Library of Babel," the history of spontaneous human combustion, the pleasures of castration, and more. Zusammenfassung Afterlives of the Saints

About the author

Colin Dickey is the author of Cranioklepty: Grave Robbing and the Search for Genius. His fiction and nonfiction have appeared in Lapham's Quarterly, Cabinet, TriQuarterly, and The Santa Monica Review. He is also coeditor (with Nicole Antebi and Robby Herbst) of Failure! Experiments in Aesthetic and Social Practices.

Product details

• Authors: Colin Dickey
• Publisher: Oneworld
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 12.06.2012
• EAN: 9781609530723
• ISBN: 978-1-60953-072-3
• No. of pages: 236
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 216 mm x 25 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Religious writings, prayers, songbooks, religious meditations