text The self-help compulsion : searching for advice in modern literature
- Summary
- "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 Samue... Read more
- Contents
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Introduction -- Self Help's Portable Wisdom -- A Bouvard and Pécuchet: Flaubert's D.I.Y. Dystopia -- Negative Visualization -- Joyce for Life -- Modernism Without Tears -- Practicality Hunger -- Coda: The Shadow University of Self Help.
- Format
- text
- Description
- xiv, 328 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press 2019
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| Library | Location | Status |
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| TADL-WOOD | 809 BLU in Adult Non-fiction | Checked out (Due: 2024-05-18) |
Fiction History and criticism Theory, etc
Fiction Psychological aspects
Psychology in literature
Psychology and literature
Psychological literature
Books and reading Psychological aspects
Reading interests
Self-help techniques
Books and reading Psychological aspects
Fiction Psychological aspects
Psychological literature
Psychology and literature
Psychology in literature
Reading interests
Self-help techniques
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