The Work of Literature in an Age of Post-Truth

ISBN-13: 9781501334290 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 168 str.

Christopher Schaberg

Opis

Written over the second decade of the 21st century and ending with the Oxford English Dictionary's adoption of the word "post-truth" in 2016, The Work of Literature in an Age of Post-Truth is a defense of the role of a humanities and liberal arts education at a time when these traditions can seem quaint or outdated in comparison to social media communications and viral (and often fake) news.English and environmental studies professor Christopher Schaberg works carefully over a range of timely topics-including work, ecological awareness, sincerity, and irony-defending and interrogating these concepts at turns. Along the way, he demystifies and expands the scope of oft-invoked quasi-academic chestnuts such as "critical thinking," the value of the English degree, and the myths of authorship.Part meditation and part manifesto, The Work of Literature in an Age of Post-Truth surveys familiar topographies of language, literature, and consumer culture in this charged and divided age.