The self-help compulsion : searching for advice in modern literature /
"Blum explores popular reading practices in which people turn to literature in search of practical advice alongside modern writers' rebukes of such instrumental purposes. As literary authors positioned themselves in opposition to people like Samuel Smiles and Dale Carnegie, readers turned...
Cote: | Libro Electrónico |
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Format: | Électronique eBook |
Langue: | Inglés |
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New York :
Columbia University Press,
[2020]
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Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
Table des matières:
- Introduction
- Self help's portable wisdom
- Bouvard and Pécuchet : Flaubert's DIY dystopia
- Negative visualization
- Joyce for life
- Modernism without tears
- Practicality hunger
- Coda : The shadow university of self help