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The self-help compulsion :searching for advice in modern literature /

紀錄類型:	書目-語言資料,印刷品 : 單行本
正題名/作者:	The self-help compulsion :/ Beth Blum.
其他題名:	searching for advice in modern literature /
其他題名:	Searching for advice in modern literature
作者:	Blum, Beth.
出版者:	New York :Columbia University Press,c2020.
面頁冊數:	xiv, 328 p. :ill. ;24 cm.
標題:	Fiction - History and criticism -
ISBN:	9780231194921 (bound) :
ISBN:	9780231551083 (ebk.)

The self-help compulsion :searching for advice in modern literature /
Blum, Beth.

The self-help compulsion :searching for advice in modern literature /Searching for advice in modern literatureBeth Blum. - New York :Columbia University Press,c2020. - xiv, 328 p. :ill. ;24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [261]-318) and index.

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.

"Samuel Beckett as a guru for business executives? James Joyce as a guide to living a good life? The notion of notoriously experimental authors sharing a shelf with self-help books might seem far-fetched, yet a hidden history of rivalry, influence, and imitation links these two worlds. In The Self-Help Compulsion, Beth Blum reveals the profound entanglement of modern literature and commercial advice from the late nineteenth century to the present day"--

ISBN: 9780231194921 (bound) :NT767

LCCN: 2019023320Subjects--Topical Terms:

1000128381
Fiction
--History and criticism

LC Class. No.: PN3352.P7 / B58 2019

Dewey Class. No.: 809/.93353

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