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Falling Upwards

Essays in Defense of the Imagination

By: Lee Siegel

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Hardcover | 1 September 2006 | Edition Number 1

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Sex and the City, Saul Bellow, Eyes Wide Shut, Dante and the American self, Barbara Kingsolver, acting in Hollywood, Soviet painting in Soho, Angels in America, Jane Austen in the present, J.K. Rowling -- nothing escapes Lee Siegel's incandescent eye. Siegel possesses an intellectual range and independent perspective unmatched by his peers, and Falling Upwards brings together the best of his essays, all of them rich with the trades mark wit and intelligence that have won him many friends and a few enemies. In these essential writings, Siegel deftly uses the occasion of a book, film, painting, or television show not merely to appraise it, but to make sense of life in a way that is more defiant of impoverished cultural "norms" than most contemporary artistic expression. Guided by the belief that a calculating self-interest in art-making diminishes the prospects for the imagination in life, Siegel celebrates authentic sensibilities and lambasts manufactured sentiments. With uncanny insight, yet also with incomparable logic and analytical rigor, he has invented a new idiom in which the language of criticism embodies the playful, creative, synthesizing power that has been largely abdicated by the arts in our time. In writing about works of culture, Siegel has created a standard by which to judge them.

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Non-Fiction Literature, Poetry & Plays Non-Fiction Prose Society & Culture Cultural Studies Popular Culture Arts & Entertainment General Issues in Art

The imagination and its obstacles
Harry Potter and the fear of not flying	p. 3
A book of virtues for the right-thinking left	p. 17
Seize the day job : sacrificing Saul Bellow on the altar of one's own career	p. 26
Persecution and the art of painting	p. 48
Faking it
Prophets of profit : how artists slyly critique their wealthy patrons	p. 79
From Stalin to SoHo	p. 84
Barbara Kingsolver's icy virtue	p. 105
Television and the Pope	p. 131
Updikes Bech	p. 139
The new king of irony	p. 151
Love me tonight?
D. H. Lawrence and the romantic option	p. 161
Who is Carrie Bradshaw really dating?	p. 170
The gay science : queer theory, literature, and the sexualization of everything	p. 182
Eyes wide shut : What the critics failed to see in Kubrick's last film	p. 215
Garcia Lorca and the flight from desire	p. 232
Life in the palm of art's hand
Dante and the subversive ego	p. 243
Sundays with the Sopranos	p. 260
A writer who is good for you	p. 279
Bernard Malamud and the comprehending heart	p. 290
The second coming of Richard Yates	p. 301
Chekhov's "cheap white bone"	p. 313
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