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02822aam a2200361 i 4500 001 F57725A43F1711E98434DF6697128E48 003 SILO 005 20190305011820 008 181026s2018 nyu b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2018030044 020 $a 1501334301 020 $a 9781501334306 020 $a 1501334298 020 $a 9781501334290 035 $a (OCoLC)1046653434 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d YDX $d NYP $d MOU $d YUS $d HTM $d XNC $d TFW $d UKMGB $d DLC $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a n-us--- 050 00 $a PN70 S33 2018 100 1 $a Schaberg, Christopher, $e author. 245 14 $a The work of literature in an age of post-truth / $c Christopher Schaberg. 264 1 $a New York : $b Bloomsbury Academic, $c 2018. 300 $a viii, 157 pages ; $c 23 cm 490 1 $a Literary studies 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 146-151) and index. 505 0 $a What is literature? -- Moving bodily sideways -- Perspectivism and Yiyun Li's The Vagrants -- From Hillsdale to the swamp -- Teaching at the end of the world -- Starting again with twentieth-century American fiction -- Something misplaced -- Shopping at Walmart (with ZÌizÌek) -- Teaching with film -- Dropped my iPhone down below -- Humanities at the airport -- Thinking space -- Against careerism, for college -- Total satisfaction -- In defense of small things -- Environmental studies, with no limits -- College : it's a mess -- Thinking critically about critical thinking -- Unsettling place -- David Foster Wallace : don't believe the hype -- Maggie Nelson's The Argonauts : a book review that is not one -- Don DeLillo's Zero K : when does the person become the body? -- Thirty observations after reading Sarah Manguso's 300 Arguments -- Liberal arts : a safe space? -- Sabbatical -- Walking it off -- Trump in the anthropocene -- Terminal democracy -- Hunting for morels, finding a mess -- Flying through nowhere -- Stuck -- Tick thinking -- Dark river balloon -- Landscape ecology -- Back in the classroom. 520 $a What is the role of literary studies in the age of Twitter threads and viral news? If the study of literature today is not just about turning to classic texts with age-old questions, neither is it a rejection of close reading or critical inquiry. Through the lived experience of a humanities professor in a rapidly changing world, this book explores how the careful study of literature and culture may be precisely what we need to navigate our dizzying epoch of post-truth politics and ecological urgency. 650 0 $a Literature $x Study and teaching (Higher) $z United States. 830 0 $a Bloomsbury literary studies series. 941 $a 1 952 $l USUX851 $d 20190502031617.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=F57725A43F1711E98434DF6697128E48 994 $a C0 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search