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A Critical Study of Self-Help and Self-Improvement Practices : Textual, Discursive, and Ethnographic Perspectives.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Lewiston : Edwin Mellen Press, 2011.Description: 1 online resource (350 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780773420687
  • 0773420681
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: A Critical Study of Self-Help and Self-Improvement Practices : Textual, Discursive, and Ethnographic Perspectives.DDC classification:
  • 158.9 158/.9
LOC classification:
  • BF632 .C525 2011
Online resources:
Contents:
Self-help as "self", "-" and "help" -- The methods chapter -- Self-help books and the activity of reading -- Reinvent yourself with Fiona Harrold -- Self-help groups and the practical -- Discussing the promise of the hyphen in self-help.
Summary: The contemporary cultural phenomenon of self-help is highly visible and yet inadequately understood. This study explores the seeming polarization of self-help - the splitting of the individual (the self) and the collective (the help) - through detailed ethnographic examination of self-help books and self-help groups. It relates these "poles" by exploring a central and connecting event, hypothesized as the hyphen in self-help, a workshop for a group of readers led by a self-help book author.
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The contemporary cultural phenomenon of self-help is highly visible and yet inadequately understood. This study explores the seeming polarization of self-help - the splitting of the individual (the self) and the collective (the help) - through detailed ethnographic examination of self-help books and self-help groups. It relates these "poles" by exploring a central and connecting event, hypothesized as the hyphen in self-help, a workshop for a group of readers led by a self-help book author.

Print version record.

Self-help as "self", "-" and "help" -- The methods chapter -- Self-help books and the activity of reading -- Reinvent yourself with Fiona Harrold -- Self-help groups and the practical -- Discussing the promise of the hyphen in self-help.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

English.

WorldCat record variable field(s) change: 650

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