The Monstrous and the Marvelous

The Monstrous and the Marvelous - Paperback

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The Monstrous and the Marvelous - Paperback

The Monstrous and the Marvelous - Paperback

by Rikki Ducornet
$18.95
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by Rikki Ducornet (Author)

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 Biography

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.

Number of Pages: 144
Dimensions: 0.43 x 8.02 x 6 IN
Publication Date: January 01, 1999
ISBN9780872863545
Author Rikki Ducornet
PublisherCity Lights Books
GenreLiterature
FormatPaperback
PublishedJanuary 1999
LanguageENG- English
Pages144
Weight1.0 lb
Target AudienceAdults
Print SizeStandard Print

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Rikki Ducornet is a transdisciplinary artist. Her work is animated by an interest in nature, Eros, tyranny and the transcendent capacities of the creative imagination. She is a poet, fiction writer, essayist, and artist, and her fiction has been translated into fifteen languages. Her art has been exhibited internationally, most recently with Amnesty International's traveling exhibit I Welcome, focused on the refugee crisis. She has received numerous fellowships and awards including an Arts and Letters Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Bard College Arts and Letters Award, the Prix Guerlain, a Critics' Choice Award, and the Lannan Literary Award for Fiction. Her novel The Jade Cabinet was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award.

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