Avidly reads theory /

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Author / Creator:Stein, Jordan Alexander, author.
Imprint:New York : New York University Press, [2019]
©2019
Description:1 online resource
Language:English
Series:Avidly reads
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/13563336
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ISBN:9781479858118
1479858110
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Online resource; title from READ title page (OverDrive; viewed October 11, 2019)
Summary:Avidly Reads is a series of short books about how culture makes us feel. Founded in 2012 by Sarah Blackwell and Sarah Mesle, Avidly--an online magazine supported by the Los Angeles Review of Books--specializes in short-form critical essays devoted to thinking and feeling. Avidly Reads is an exciting new series featuring books that are part memoir, part cultural criticism, each bringing to life the author's emotional relationship to a cultural artifact or experience. Avidly Reads invites us to explore the surprising pleasures and obstacles of everyday life. This is a story about the emotional lives of ideas. As an avowed "theory head," Jordan Alexander Stein confronts a contradiction: that the abstract, and often frustrating rigors of theory also produced a sense of pride and identity for him and his friends: an idea of how to be and a way to live. Although Stein explains what theory is, this is not an introduction or a how-to. Organized around five ways that theory makes us feel--silly, stupid, sexy, seething and stuck--Stein travels back to the late nineties to tell a story of coming of age at a particular moment and to measure how that moment lives on now
Other form:Print version: Stein, Jordan Alexander. Avidly Reads Theory. New York : New York University Press, ©2019 9781479827398