books by Eric G. Wilson
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Eric G. Wilson
The Spiritual History of Ice: Romanticism, Science, and the Imagination
Eric G. Wilson
Palgrave Macmillan
, 2003
At the turn of the nineteenth century, crystallographers, glaciologists, and polar explorers for the first time demonstrated that frozen shapes are not dead but bearers of vital powers. Aware of this new scientific information, Romantic figures in England and America--including Coleridge and Poe, Percy and Mary Shelley, Emerson and ...
The Melancholy Android: On the Psychology of Sacred Machines
Eric G. Wilson
State University of New York Press
, 2006
Explores the cultural significance of androids.
Strange World of David Lynch: Transcendental Irony from Eraserhead to Mulholland Drive
Eric G. Wilson
Continuum International Publishing Group
, 2007
Anyone who has sat through the dark and grainy world of Eraserhead knows that David Lynch's films pull us into a strange world where reality turns upside down and sideways. His films are carnivals that allow us to transcend our ordinary lives and to reverse the meanings we live with in our daily lives. Nowhere is this demonstrated better than in ...
Aces: Curse Of The Red Baron
Shannon Eric Denton
,
G. Willow Wilson
, ...
AiT/PlanetLar
, 2008
It's World War I. Amidst the bloodshed, a British flying ace and an American infantryman steal a map from the body of the Red Baron, a map they believe leads to his lost treasure. The two adventurers desert their posts and embark on a remarkable quest that leads them into enemy territory, past vanishing islands, secret organizations, and a ...
Skins of Youth
Charlee Jacob
,
Mehitobel Wilson
Necro Publications
, 2002
Lovely chapbook of vampiric and expectorating madness
There are two stories in Skins Of Youth, the first "Immortality" by Charlee Jacob is the tale of a young circus acrobat longing to become one of the Vampires in his Grandmother's strange tales. Along his search and active intentions to kill himself, he discovers a ...
Against Happiness: In Praise of Melancholy
Eric G. Wilson
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
, 2008
Beautiful, important book
As a society, we are in love with happiness. We lust for it, we search for it, we will do anything to have it. And it's almost never questioned. In fact, if you don't want happiness, your own or at least someone else's satisfaction, most people probably think you're ...
Secret Cinema: Gnostic Vision in Film
Eric G. Wilson
Continuum International Publishing Group
, 2006
The Case of the Golden Boy
Eric G. Wilson
HarperCollins Publishers Canada, Limited
, 1996
Fun Mystery
Tom Austen is back with his crime solving expertise. This time one of his schoolmates has been kidnapped and it's up to him to find him. But when he begins uncovering interesting facts about the Golden Boy Cafe, and then gets kidnapped himself he needs to use his brain ...
Coleridge's Melancholia: An Anatomy of Limbo
ERIC G. WILSON
University Press of Florida
, 2004
This lively intellectual biography of the second half of Coleridge's life argues that the poet, in his mature work, reveals a brilliant though troubled genius for conveying the ambiguities of psychological limbo. Asserting that the later poetry is the key element of Coleridge's career, Eric G. Wilson proposes that this period of work ...
Sunstone: Mormon Experience, Scholarship, Issues & Art: 25th Year Silver Anniversary Edition (Volume 22:3-4, ...
Stan Christensen
,
Elbert Eugene Peck
, ...
Sunstone Foundation
, 1999
The Unmasking of "Ksan
Eric G. Wilson
HarperCollins Publishers Canada, Limited
, 1987
Thoreau, crystallography, and the science of the transparent.: An article from: Studies in Romanticism
Eric G. Wilson
Boston University
, 2004
This digital document is an article from Studies in Romanticism, published by Boston University on March 22, 2004. The length of the article is 8623 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can ...
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