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03630aam a22004818i 4500 001 D3DD08EA166311EA9B100A4E97128E48 003 SILO 005 20191204010031 008 190618s2019 nyu b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2019023320 020 $a 0231194927 020 $a 9780231194921 035 $a (OCoLC)1107158183 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d YDX $d BDX $d SILO 042 $a pcc 050 00 $a PN3352 P7 B58 2019 100 1 $a Blum, Beth $e author. 245 14 $a The self-help compulsion : $b searching for advice in modern literature / $c Beth Blum. 246 30 $a Searching for advice in modern literature 263 $a 1912 264 1 $a New York : $b Columbia University Press, $c 2019. 300 $a pages cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a Introduction -- Self Help's Portable Wisdom -- A Bouvard and PeÌcuchet: Flaubert's D.I.Y. Dystopia -- Negative Visualization -- Joyce for Life -- Modernism Without Tears -- Practicality Hunger -- Coda: The Shadow University of Self Help. 520 $a "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"-- $c Provided by publisher. 520 $a "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 to self-help for the promises of mobility, agency, and use that serious literature was reluctant to supply. Blum unearths a series of unlikely cases of the love-hate relationship between serious fiction and commercial advice, from Gustave Flaubert's mockery of early DIY culture to Dear Abby's cutting diagnoses of Nathanael West and from Virginia Woolf's ambivalent polemics against self-improvement to the ways that contemporary global authors such as Mohsin Hamid and Tash Aw explicitly draw on the self-help genre. She traces the self-help industry's tendency to quote, repurpose, and adapt literary wisdom and considers what self-help might have to teach today's university. Offering a new account of self-help's origins, appeal, and cultural and literary import around the world, this book reveals that self-help's most valuable secrets are not about getting rich or winning friends but about how and why people read" -- $c Provided by publisher. 650 0 $a Fiction $x Theory, etc. $x Theory, etc. 650 0 $a Fiction $x Psychological aspects. 650 0 $a Psychology in literature. 650 0 $a Psychology and literature. 650 0 $a Psychological literature. 650 0 $a Books and reading $x Psychological aspects. 650 0 $a Reading interests. 650 0 $a Self-help techniques. 776 08 $i Online version: $a Blum, Beth, $t The self-help compulsion $d New York : Columbia University Press, 2019. $z 9780231551083 941 $a 5 952 $l USUX851 $d 20220802022050.0 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20220317021902.0 952 $l GAAX314 $d 20200829010417.0 952 $l GBPF771 $d 20200303014812.0 952 $l TCPG826 $d 20200208010740.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=D3DD08EA166311EA9B100A4E97128E48 994 $a C0 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search