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"Hollywood & God" is a virtuosic performance, filled with crossings back and forth from cinematic chiaroscuro to a kind of unsettling desperation and disturbing even lurid hallucination. From the "Baltimore Catechism" to the great noir films of the last century to today s Elvis impersonators and Paris Hilton (an impersonator of a different sort), Robert Polito tracks the snares, abrasions, and hijinks of personal identities in our society of the spectacle, a place where who we say we are, and who (we think) we think we are fade in and out of consciousness, like flickers of light dancing...

"Hollywood & God" is a virtuosic performance, filled with crossings back and forth from cinematic chiaroscuro to a kind of unsettling desperation and disturbing even lurid hallucination. From the "Baltimore Catechism" to the great noir films of the last century to today s Elvis impersonators and Paris Hilton (an impersonator of a different sort), Robert Polito tracks the snares, abrasions, and hijinks of personal identities in our society of the spectacle, a place where who we say we are, and who (we think) we think we are fade in and out of consciousness, like flickers of light dancing...

This title, first published in 1987, comprises of three essays which examine Lord Byron s poetry. Some of Byron s most famous poems are examined, including "Don Juan "and" Childe Harold's Pilgrimage. "This title will be of interest to students of literature. "

Farber was an...