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

By:

Cherry, Scott

Material type: Text

TextPublication 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

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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

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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.