Descripción
With the great Renaissance voyages to the New World came the popularity of Wunderkammern, or cabinets of wonders, in which newly discovered monsters and marvels could be displayed. Like such a cabinet, this collection of essays surveys the monstrous and the marvelous--as transmuted in the alembic of Rikki Ducornet's open-hearted vision--in literature, art and film. For her, excess anomaly, and heterodoxy entice the imagining mind to embrace "otherness," enlarge the world and regenerate Eden.
Author: Rikki Ducornet
Publisher: City Lights Books
Published: 01/01/2001
Pages: 144
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.44lbs
Size: 8.02h x 6.00w x 0.43d
ISBN13: 9780872863545
ISBN10: 0872863549
BISAC Categories:
- Literary Collections | Essays
About the Author
Rikki Ducornet, born in 1943, is an American writer, poet and artist who focuses her work on sexuality and religion. Her other works include Entering Fire (also published by City Lights), Brightfellow, The Deep Zoo and Netsuke.