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Contemporary American Fiction and Cultures of Self-Help.
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| 著者・編者 | Moore, Gillian, |
|---|---|
| シリーズ | Cambridge Studies in Twenty-First-Century Literature and Culture |
| 出版社 | (Cambridge University Press, UK) |
| 出版年月 | 2025 |
| ページ数 | 287 pp. |
| 言語 | ENG |
| ニュース番号 | ＜L25-41569＞ |
解説
This is a book about the encounters that contemporary North American fiction stages with distinct strands of self-help. Its central argument is that the varied practices of ever-expanding and diversifying self-help cultures are generatively elastic sites of inspiration as well as antagonism for contemporary authors: spaces where they can explore what it means to be better on personal, ethical, and societal terms. It offers new perspectives on the work of nine very different writers by exploring how they play different forms of self-help off against one another. This book shows how in the clashes between practices ranging from commencement speeches and grassroots communitarian self-help to time-management productivity manuals, trauma recovery theories, pop-neuroscience, and makeover cultures, contemporary writers try to find ways of reimagining authority and agency beyond individualism, asking how - and if - it is possible to live and write 'better' in our compromised neoliberal world.