Carousel: An Essay on Seeing
Autor Sarah Minoren Limba Engleză Hardback – 21 iul 2026
Carousel opens as a professor begins delivering a lecture to a hot room. Her students have the internet in their pockets, screens on their wrists, seeing in more directions than students ever could before. But what, in fact, are they looking at?
In the spirit of John Berger’s Ways of Seeing, Sarah Minor’s Carousel explores how the pursuit of panoramic vision frames power, distorts reality, and implicates both viewer and subject. Across short, loping sections that weave history with memoir, close looking with confession, Minor masterfully fuses the slide lecture with the lyric essay, tying medieval tapestries to surrealism and Instagram reels to predator drones. In language that captures the disorientation of that other carousel, the whirling carnival ride, Minor shows how the more we strive to see, the more we ultimately reveal ourselves.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780300284331
ISBN-10: 0300284330
Pagini: 176
Dimensiuni: 140 x 216 mm
Editura: Yale University Press
Colecția Yale University Press
ISBN-10: 0300284330
Pagini: 176
Dimensiuni: 140 x 216 mm
Editura: Yale University Press
Colecția Yale University Press
Recenzii
“Minor weaves together an artful collage of observations, from the historic to the modern and the critical to the personal. Indelible and idiosyncratic details . . . add intimacy and humanity to Minor’s insights. This is potent.”—Publishers Weekly
“Reading Sarah Minor’s Carousel, I was a captivated student in a darkened room, enlightened by every page (or slide) of this surprising, learned, and luminous book.”—Kate Briggs, author of This Little Art
“Minor crafts remarkable studies in attention and distraction, brilliantly engaging with the realities and complexities of bringing historical materials into current conditions of encounter.”—Johanna Drucker, author of Graphesis: Visual Forms of Knowledge Production
“Minor’s prose—intimate, luminous, wise—unspools before our eyes, as mesmerizing as the horizon rushing away from us in her rear-view mirror.”—Barbara Browning, author of The Miniaturists
“Carousel invites us into a zoetrope of provisional spaces: the interior horizons of war, media, confinement, and creative impulse, (un)framed, artfully rendered in taut, resonant prose. A gaze-changer.”—Tisa Bryant, author of Residual
“Reading Sarah Minor’s Carousel, I was a captivated student in a darkened room, enlightened by every page (or slide) of this surprising, learned, and luminous book.”—Kate Briggs, author of This Little Art
“Minor crafts remarkable studies in attention and distraction, brilliantly engaging with the realities and complexities of bringing historical materials into current conditions of encounter.”—Johanna Drucker, author of Graphesis: Visual Forms of Knowledge Production
“Minor’s prose—intimate, luminous, wise—unspools before our eyes, as mesmerizing as the horizon rushing away from us in her rear-view mirror.”—Barbara Browning, author of The Miniaturists
“Carousel invites us into a zoetrope of provisional spaces: the interior horizons of war, media, confinement, and creative impulse, (un)framed, artfully rendered in taut, resonant prose. A gaze-changer.”—Tisa Bryant, author of Residual
Notă biografică
Sarah Minor is the author of two previous books, Bright Archive and Slim Confessions: The Universe as a Spider or Spit, as well as the chapbook The Persistence of the Bonyleg: Annotated. She teaches writing at the University of Iowa. Minor lives in Iowa City, IA.