Questionnaire

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. Questionnaires are everywhere: we fill them out at doctors'' offices and at job interviews, to express ourselves and to advance knowledge, to find love and to kill time. But where did they come from, and why have they proliferated? Evan Kindley''s investigates the history of "the form as form," from the Victorian confession album to the BuzzFeed quiz. By asking questions about the questions we ask ourselves, Kindley uncovers surprising connections between literature and science, psychology and business, and journalism and surveillance.Object Lessons is published in partnership with an essay series in The Atlantic .>

Product details

• Authors: Dr Evan (Claremont McKenna College Kindley, Evan Kindley, Kindley Evan
• Assisted by: Ian Bogost (Editor), Christopher Schaberg (Editor)
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 28.07.2016
• EAN: 9781501314773
• ISBN: 978-1-5013-1477-3
• No. of pages: 168
• Dimensions: 118 mm x 164 mm x 16 mm
• Series: Object Lessons; Object Lessons
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Essays, feuilletons, literary criticism, interviews; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Politics; Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Society; Essays, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Essays, Literary essays