Cigarette lighter
By: Jack Pendarvis
Series: Object lessons
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Published: 2016
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 135
ISBN-13: 9781501307362
Subjects: Cigar lighters; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies; PHILOSOPHY / Aesthetics; Smoking; Popular culture; LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural
Description: "An eclectic and poetic exploration of the cigarette lighter and its association with romance, magic, art, science, immortality and death in literature and popular culture"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Welcome to the National Lighter Museum; title: Personalized; title: The Disposability of the Permanent; the Permanence of the Disposable; title: Masters of Fire; title: Smoke 'Em if You've Got 'Em; title: What Have We Learned So Far?; title: Strike Anywhere; title: In Cars; title: Strange Intimacy; title: About These Little Things.