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Proxies: Essays Near Knowing

Full title: Proxies: Essays Near Knowing
ISBN: 9781937658458
ISBN 10: 1937658457
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Publisher: Nightboat Books
Edition: 1st
Num. pages: 200
Binding: Paperback
Language: en
Published on: 2016

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A Go-for-broke Essay Collection That Blends Cultural Close Reading And Dicey Autobiography. --jacket Flap. Machine Generated Contents Note: On Owls -- On Completism -- On Sardines -- On Br'er Rabbit -- On Foot Washing -- On Propositionizing -- On The Locus Amoenus -- On Man Roulette -- On Withdrawal -- On Tumbleweed -- On Containment -- On House Sitting -- On Minutes -- On Authorship -- On The Leave -- On Confoundedness -- On Abstraction -- On Peripersonal Space -- On Dossiers -- On Frottage -- On Reset -- On The Ingenue -- On The Understory -- On The Near Term -- {permitting Shame, Error And Guilt, Myself The Single Source} -- Ch. 1 Minoan Caves: Points To Consider Regarding Function -- Ch. 2 Methodology -- Ch. 3 Coarse Fabrics, Neolithic To Em I -- Ch. 4 Coarse And Fine Fabrics, Em I -- Iia -- Ch. 5 Dark Burnished Offering Tables In Monochrome Style With Coarse Phyllite Fabric, Em I -- Iia -- Ch. 6 Vasiliki Ware And Its Imitations, Em Iib -- Ch. 7 Vessels In Pale Fabrics With Mostly Light-on-dark Decoration, Em Iii -- Mm Ii -- Ch. 8 Diagonal Line Style Jugs And Other Small Jugs In Pale Fabrics, Mm I -- Ch. 9 Jugs With Bosses In Barbotine Style, Mm I -- Ii -- Table B.13 Fine Red Pottery With Dark Red Or Black Slip, Mm Ib -- Table B.14 Pottery With Parallels From Galatas, Mm Ib -- Table B.15 Kamares Ware, Mm Ib -- Iib -- Table B.16 Chamaizi Pots, Mm Iib -- Table B.17 Pottery With Parallels From Malia, Pale Fabrics, Mm I -- Iib -- Table B.18 Various Nonlocal Fabric Groups, Pale Fabrics, Em Iii -- Mm Iib -- Table B.19 Lasithi Red Fabric Group, Em Iii -- Mm Ii -- Table B.20 Typology Of Local Cups In The Lasithi Red Fabric Group. Many Are Painted With White-on-dark Decoration. Brian Blanchfield. A Reckoning. A Go-for-broke Essay Collection That Blends Cultural Close Reading And Dicey Autobiography.--jacket Flap.