The Other Serious - Essays for the New American Generation

An original collection of incandescent cultural criticism, both experimental and personal, full of pragmatic advice for how to live a considered, joyful existence in our era of screen living and hipster irony, by a Gen-X Princeton professor and contributor to The New York Times The essays in The Other Serious examine the signature phenomena of our moment: the way our lives contradict themselves, how exaggeration and excess seep into our collective subconscious, why gender is becoming more rather than less complicated, and how we interact with the material things that surround us. It is a book about the delicacy and bluntness of American life, about how pop culture sticks its finger deeply into the ethical dilemmas of our time, and how to negotiate between the old and the new, the high and the low, the global and the local, the sacred and the profane. At the heart of these reflections lies a central question: What should you do when you don''t know what to do? Taken together, these essays comprise a guide for the overhaul of "the administrativersity" of contemporary American life, a bureaucratic prison where the brain needn''t work anymore. These pieces investigate the writer''s own way of thinking--putting forth new ideas, questioning them, and urging the reader to adopt the same spirit of critical reexamination.

A propos de l'auteur

Christy Wampole is an assistant professor of French at Princeton University. Her research focuses primarily on twentieth and twenty-first century French and Italian literature and thought. She lives in Princeton, New Jersey.

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: Christy Wampole
• Edition: Harper Perennial USA
• Langues: Anglais
• Format d'édition: Livre de poche
• Sortie: 05.07.2016
• EAN: 9780062320360
• ISBN: 978-0-06-232036-0
• Pages: 256
• Dimensions: 135 mm x 203 mm x 15 mm
• Catégories: Littérature > Poésie, théâtre; Popular Culture, Europe, Social Theory, Psychology, Rural communities, Social, group or collective psychology, United States of America, USA, Literary essays, Anthologies: general, Philosophical traditions and schools of thought, Society and culture: general, Diaries, letters and journals, Speeches, SOCIAL SCIENCE: Popular Culture, LITERARY COLLECTIONS: Essays, LITERARY COLLECTIONS: American / General, LITERARY COLLECTIONS: Letters, SOCIAL SCIENCE: Essays, LITERARY COLLECTIONS: Speeches, LITERARY COLLECTIONS: European / General, LITERATURE: LITERARY COLLECTIONS, WOMEN'S LITERATURE: LITERARY COLLECTIONS, SOCIAL SCIENCE: Sociology / Rural, Women's Literature / Literary Collections, Literature / Literary Collections