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  1. Michael Faraday's mental exercises
    an artisan essay-circle in Regency London
    Contributor: Jenkins, Alice (HerausgeberIn)
    Published: 2008
    Publisher:  Liverpool University Press, Liverpool

    In 1818 Michael Faraday and a handful of other London artisans formed a self-help group with the aim of teaching themselves to write like gentlemen. For a year and a half Faraday’s essay-circle met regularly to read aloud and criticise one another’s... more

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    In 1818 Michael Faraday and a handful of other London artisans formed a self-help group with the aim of teaching themselves to write like gentlemen. For a year and a half Faraday’s essay-circle met regularly to read aloud and criticise one another’s writings. The ‘Mental Exercises’ they produced are a record of the life, literary tastes and social and political ideas of Dissenting artisans in Regency London. This book is the first to publish the essays and poems produced by Faraday’s circle. The complete corpus of the essay-circle’s writings is accompanied by detailed annotations, extracts from key sources and a full-length introduction explaining the biographical, historical and literary context of the group. This edition will be valuable not only for historians of Romantic and Victorian science, but for literary scholars and historians working on early nineteenth-century writing, reading and class issues, and for all readers interested in the development of the mind of a great scientist

     
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    Source: Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin
    Contributor: Jenkins, Alice (HerausgeberIn)
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9781781387658
    Series: Liverpool English texts and studies ; 51
    Subjects: Self-help techniques; English language; English language; Report writing; Self-help groups; Faraday, Michael ; 1791-1867 ; Friends and associates; Faraday, Michael ; 1791-1867 ; Sources; Self-help groups ; England ; London; Self-help techniques; English language ; Rhetoric ; Study and teaching; English language ; Style ; Study and teaching; Report writing ; Study and teaching
    Other subjects: Faraday, Michael (1791-1867); Faraday, Michael (1791-1867)
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (xii, 250 pages), digital, PDF file(s)
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  2. The Self-Help Compulsion
    searching for advice in modern literature
    Author: Blum, Beth
    Published: [2020]; © 2020
    Publisher:  Columbia University Press, New York, NY

    Samuel Beckett as a guru for business executives? James Joyce as a guide to living a good life? The notion of notoriously experimental authors sharing a shelf with self-help books might seem far-fetched, yet a hidden history of rivalry, influence,... more

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    Samuel Beckett as a guru for business executives? James Joyce as a guide to living a good life? The notion of notoriously experimental authors sharing a shelf with self-help books might seem far-fetched, yet a hidden history of rivalry, influence, and imitation links these two worlds. In The Self-Help Compulsion, Beth Blum reveals the profound entanglement of modern literature and commercial advice from the late nineteenth century to the present day.Blum explores popular reading practices in which people turn to literature in search of practical advice alongside modern writers' rebukes of such instrumental purposes. As literary authors positioned themselves in opposition to people like Samuel Smiles and Dale Carnegie, readers turned to self-help for the promises of mobility, agency, and practical use that serious literature was reluctant to supply. Blum unearths a series of unlikely cases of the love-hate relationship between serious fiction and commercial advice, from Gustave Flaubert's mockery of early DIY culture to Dear Abby's cutting diagnoses of Nathanael West and from Virginia Woolf's ambivalent polemics against self-improvement to the ways that contemporary global authors such as Mohsin Hamid and Tash Aw explicitly draw on the self-help genre. She also traces the self-help industry's tendency to popularize, "e, and adapt literary wisdom and considers what it might have to teach today's university. Offering a new history of self-help's origins, appeal, and cultural and literary import around the world, this book reveals that self-help's most valuable secrets are not about getting rich or winning friends but about how and why people read

     
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    ISBN: 9780231551083
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    Subjects: HISTORY / United States / 20th Century; Books and reading; Fiction; Fiction; Psychological literature; Psychology and literature; Psychology in literature; Reading interests; Self-help techniques; Lektüre; Literatur; Lebenshilfe
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  3. Erfolgreiche Rhetorik
    Faire und unfaire Verhaltensweisen in Rede und Gespräch
    Author: Vogt, Gustav
    Published: 2010
    Publisher:  De Gruyter, Berlin/Boston ; ProQuest, Ann Arbor, Michigan

    Erfolgreiche Rhetorik: faire und unfaire Verhaltensweisen in Rede und Gespräch. more

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    Erfolgreiche Rhetorik: faire und unfaire Verhaltensweisen in Rede und Gespräch.

     
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    ISBN: 9783486710182
    RVK Categories: AK 39700 ; AP 15500 ; EC 4100
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    Edition: 3rd ed.
    Subjects: Vortragstechnik; Oral communication -- Study and teaching; Public speaking; Self-help techniques; Self-presentation
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  4. Michael Faraday's mental exercises
    an artisan essay-circle in Regency London
    Contributor: Jenkins, Alice (HerausgeberIn)
    Published: 2008
    Publisher:  Liverpool University Press, Liverpool

    In 1818 Michael Faraday and a handful of other London artisans formed a self-help group with the aim of teaching themselves to write like gentlemen. For a year and a half Faraday’s essay-circle met regularly to read aloud and criticise one another’s... more

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    In 1818 Michael Faraday and a handful of other London artisans formed a self-help group with the aim of teaching themselves to write like gentlemen. For a year and a half Faraday’s essay-circle met regularly to read aloud and criticise one another’s writings. The ‘Mental Exercises’ they produced are a record of the life, literary tastes and social and political ideas of Dissenting artisans in Regency London. This book is the first to publish the essays and poems produced by Faraday’s circle. The complete corpus of the essay-circle’s writings is accompanied by detailed annotations, extracts from key sources and a full-length introduction explaining the biographical, historical and literary context of the group. This edition will be valuable not only for historians of Romantic and Victorian science, but for literary scholars and historians working on early nineteenth-century writing, reading and class issues, and for all readers interested in the development of the mind of a great scientist

     
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    Contributor: Jenkins, Alice (HerausgeberIn)
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    ISBN: 9781781387658
    Series: Liverpool English texts and studies ; 51
    Subjects: Self-help techniques; English language; English language; Report writing; Self-help groups; Faraday, Michael ; 1791-1867 ; Friends and associates; Faraday, Michael ; 1791-1867 ; Sources; Self-help groups ; England ; London; Self-help techniques; English language ; Rhetoric ; Study and teaching; English language ; Style ; Study and teaching; Report writing ; Study and teaching
    Other subjects: Faraday, Michael (1791-1867); Faraday, Michael (1791-1867)
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  5. The self-help compulsion
    searching for advice in modern literature
    Author: Blum, Beth
    Published: [2020]
    Publisher:  Columbia University Press, New York

    "Samuel Beckett as a guru for business executives? James Joyce as a guide to living a good life? The notion of notoriously experimental authors sharing a shelf with self-help books might seem far-fetched, yet a hidden history of rivalry, influence,... more

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    "Samuel Beckett as a guru for business executives? James Joyce as a guide to living a good life? The notion of notoriously experimental authors sharing a shelf with self-help books might seem far-fetched, yet a hidden history of rivalry, influence, and imitation links these two worlds. In The Self-Help Compulsion, Beth Blum reveals the profound entanglement of modern literature and commercial advice from the late nineteenth century to the present day"-- "Blum explores popular reading practices in which people turn to literature in search of practical advice alongside modern writers' rebukes of such instrumental purposes. As literary authors positioned themselves in opposition to people like Samuel Smiles and Dale Carnegie, readers turned to self-help for the promises of mobility, agency, and use that serious literature was reluctant to supply. Blum unearths a series of unlikely cases of the love-hate relationship between serious fiction and commercial advice, from Gustave Flaubert's mockery of early DIY culture to Dear Abby's cutting diagnoses of Nathanael West and from Virginia Woolf's ambivalent polemics against self-improvement to the ways that contemporary global authors such as Mohsin Hamid and Tash Aw explicitly draw on the self-help genre. She traces the self-help industry's tendency to quote, repurpose, and adapt literary wisdom and considers what self-help might have to teach today's university. Offering a new account of self-help's origins, appeal, and cultural and literary import around the world, this book reveals that self-help's most valuable secrets are not about getting rich or winning friends but about how and why people read" --

     
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    ISBN: 9780231194921
    RVK Categories: EC 2000 ; EC 2430
    Subjects: Fiction; Fiction; Psychology in literature; Psychology and literature; Psychological literature; Books and reading; Reading interests; Self-help techniques
    Scope: xiv, 328 Seiten, Illustrationen
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    Includes bibliographical references and index
  6. Erfolgreiche Rhetorik
    Faire und unfaire Verhaltensweisen in Rede und Gespräch
    Author: Vogt, Gustav
    Published: 2010; ©2010.
    Publisher:  De Gruyter, München

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    Erfolgreiche Rhetorik: faire und unfaire Verhaltensweisen in Rede und Gespräch

     
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    ISBN: 9783486710182
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    Edition: 3. Aufl., 3., vollständig überarbeitete
    Subjects: Public speaking; Oral communication; Rhetoric; Self-presentation; Literature; Self-help techniques; EDUCATION / General
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  7. Selbstsicher reden - selbstbewußt handeln
    Rhetorik für Frauen
    Author: Fey, Gudrun
    Published: 1998
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    Subjects: Public speaking for women; Self-confidence; Self-help techniques; Vortragstechnik; Rhetorik; Frau
    Scope: 176 S.
  8. Die Sprache des Erfolgs
    Rhetorik und Persönlichkeit - so stärken Sie Ihr Ich
    Author: Enkelmann, Nikolaus B.
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    Subjects: Psychologie; Self-culture; Self-help techniques; Self-talk; Success; Psychologie; Verkaufsgespräch; Rhetorik; Sales-promotion
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  9. Wege zum "rechten" Leben
    Selbst- und Weltdeutungen in Lebenshilferatgebern
    Author: Tretzel, Annette
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    Series: Münchner Studien zur Kultur- und Sozialpsychologie ; 1.
    Subjects: Geschichte; Self-help techniques; Psychological literature; Psychology -- History -- 20th century; Lebensführung; Lebenshilfe; Literatur; Bewertung; Wertorientierung
    Scope: 209 S.
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  10. The Self-Help Compulsion
    searching for advice in modern literature
    Author: Blum, Beth
    Published: [2020]; © 2020
    Publisher:  Columbia University Press, New York, NY

    Samuel Beckett as a guru for business executives? James Joyce as a guide to living a good life? The notion of notoriously experimental authors sharing a shelf with self-help books might seem far-fetched, yet a hidden history of rivalry, influence,... more

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    Samuel Beckett as a guru for business executives? James Joyce as a guide to living a good life? The notion of notoriously experimental authors sharing a shelf with self-help books might seem far-fetched, yet a hidden history of rivalry, influence, and imitation links these two worlds. In The Self-Help Compulsion, Beth Blum reveals the profound entanglement of modern literature and commercial advice from the late nineteenth century to the present day.Blum explores popular reading practices in which people turn to literature in search of practical advice alongside modern writers' rebukes of such instrumental purposes. As literary authors positioned themselves in opposition to people like Samuel Smiles and Dale Carnegie, readers turned to self-help for the promises of mobility, agency, and practical use that serious literature was reluctant to supply. Blum unearths a series of unlikely cases of the love-hate relationship between serious fiction and commercial advice, from Gustave Flaubert's mockery of early DIY culture to Dear Abby's cutting diagnoses of Nathanael West and from Virginia Woolf's ambivalent polemics against self-improvement to the ways that contemporary global authors such as Mohsin Hamid and Tash Aw explicitly draw on the self-help genre. She also traces the self-help industry's tendency to popularize, "e, and adapt literary wisdom and considers what it might have to teach today's university. Offering a new history of self-help's origins, appeal, and cultural and literary import around the world, this book reveals that self-help's most valuable secrets are not about getting rich or winning friends but about how and why people read

     
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    Subjects: HISTORY / United States / 20th Century; Books and reading; Fiction; Fiction; Psychological literature; Psychology and literature; Psychology in literature; Reading interests; Self-help techniques; Lebenshilfe; Literatur; Lektüre
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (xiv, 328 Seiten), Illustrationen
  11. Publish and prosper
    a strategy guide for students and researchers
    Author: Lambert, Nathaniel M.
    Published: 2014
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  12. Self-help books
    why Americans keep reading them
    Author: Dolby, Sandra K.
    Published: c2005
    Publisher:  University of Illinois Press, Urbana

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    RVK Categories: LC 50610 ; LC 58610
    Subjects: Self-help techniques; Psychological literature; Psychologie; Selbsthilfe; Literatur
    Scope: xii, 192 p
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    Includes bibliographical references (p. [163]-181) and index
  13. Self-help books
    why Americans keep reading them
    Author: Dolby, Sandra K.
    Published: 2008
    Publisher:  Univ. of Illinois Press, Urbana [u.a.]

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    "Based on a reading of more than three hundred self-help books, Sandra K. Dolby examines this remarkably popular genre to define "self-help" in a way that's compelling to academics and lay readers alike. Self-Help Books also offers an interpretation of why these books are so popular, arguing that they continue the well-established American penchant for self-education, they articulate problems of daily life and their supposed solutions, and they present their content in a form and style that is accessible rather than arcane." "Using tools associated with folklore studies, Dolby then examines how the genre makes use of stories, aphorisms, and a traditional yet contemporary worldview. The overarching premise of the study is that self-help books, much like fairy tales, take traditional materials, especially stories and ideals, and recast them into extended essays that people happily read, think about, try to apply, and then set aside when a new embodiment of the genre comes along."--BOOK JACKET.

     
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    ISBN: 0252029747; 9780252075186
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    Subjects: Psychologie; Zelfhulptechnieken; Self-help techniques; Psychological literature; Selbsthilfe; Literatur; Psychologie
    Scope: XII, 192 S.
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    Includes bibliographical references (p. [163]-181) and index

    American popular self-education -- The books, the writers, and metacommentary -- The critics, the simple self, and America's cultural cringe -- Giving advice and getting wisdom -- Memes, themes, and worldview -- Stories -- Proverbs, quotes, and insights -- Finding a use for self-help testimonies.
  14. The self-help compulsion
    searching for advice in modern literature
    Author: Blum, Beth
    Published: [2020]
    Publisher:  Columbia University Press, New York

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    "Blum explores popular reading practices in which people turn to literature in search of practical advice alongside modern writers' rebukes of such instrumental purposes. As literary authors positioned themselves in opposition to people like Samuel Smiles and Dale Carnegie, readers turned to self-help for the promises of mobility, agency, and use that serious literature was reluctant to supply. Blum unearths a series of unlikely cases of the love-hate relationship between serious fiction and commercial advice, from Gustave Flaubert's mockery of early DIY culture to Dear Abby's cutting diagnoses of Nathanael West and from Virginia Woolf's ambivalent polemics against self-improvement to the ways that contemporary global authors such as Mohsin Hamid and Tash Aw explicitly draw on the self-help genre. She traces the self-help industry's tendency to quote, repurpose, and adapt literary wisdom and considers what self-help might have to teach today's university. Offering a new account of self-help's origins, appeal, and cultural and literary import around the world, this book reveals that self-help's most valuable secrets are not about getting rich or winning friends but about how and why people read" -- Introduction -- Self help's portable wisdom -- Bouvard and Pécuchet : Flaubert's DIY dystopia -- Negative visualization -- Joyce for life -- Modernism without tears -- Practicality hunger -- Coda : The shadow university of self help

     
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  15. Michael Faraday's mental exercises
    an artisan essay-circle in Regency London
    Contributor: Jenkins, Alice (HerausgeberIn)
    Published: 2008
    Publisher:  Liverpool University Press, Liverpool

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    In 1818 Michael Faraday and a handful of other London artisans formed a self-help group with the aim of teaching themselves to write like gentlemen. For a year and a half Faraday’s essay-circle met regularly to read aloud and criticise one another’s writings. The ‘Mental Exercises’ they produced are a record of the life, literary tastes and social and political ideas of Dissenting artisans in Regency London. This book is the first to publish the essays and poems produced by Faraday’s circle. The complete corpus of the essay-circle’s writings is accompanied by detailed annotations, extracts from key sources and a full-length introduction explaining the biographical, historical and literary context of the group. This edition will be valuable not only for historians of Romantic and Victorian science, but for literary scholars and historians working on early nineteenth-century writing, reading and class issues, and for all readers interested in the development of the mind of a great scientist

     
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    Contributor: Jenkins, Alice (HerausgeberIn)
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9781846313554
    Subjects: Self-help groups; Self-help techniques; English language; English language; Report writing
    Other subjects: Faraday, Michael (1791-1867); Faraday, Michael (1791-1867)
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (xii, 250 pages), digital, PDF file(s)
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  16. Self-help books
    why Americans keep reading them
    Author: Dolby, Sandra K.
    Published: 2005
    Publisher:  Univ. of Illinois Press, Urbana [u.a.]

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    "Based on a reading of more than three hundred self-help books, Sandra K. Dolby examines this remarkably popular genre to define "self-help" in a way that's compelling to academics and lay readers alike. Self-Help Books also offers an interpretation of why these books are so popular, arguing that they continue the well-established American penchant for self-education, they articulate problems of daily life and their supposed solutions, and they present their content in a form and style that is accessible rather than arcane." "Using tools associated with folklore studies, Dolby then examines how the genre makes use of stories, aphorisms, and a traditional yet contemporary worldview. The overarching premise of the study is that self-help books, much like fairy tales, take traditional materials, especially stories and ideals, and recast them into extended essays that people happily read, think about, try to apply, and then set aside when a new embodiment of the genre comes along."--BOOK JACKET.

     
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    ISBN: 0252029747
    RVK Categories: LC 50610 ; LC 58610
    Subjects: Psychologie; Zelfhulptechnieken; Self-help techniques; Psychological literature; Psychologie; Literatur; Selbsthilfe
    Scope: XII, 192 S.
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    Includes bibliographical references (p. [163]-181) and index

    American popular self-education -- The books, the writers, and metacommentary -- The critics, the simple self, and America's cultural cringe -- Giving advice and getting wisdom -- Memes, themes, and worldview -- Stories -- Proverbs, quotes, and insights -- Finding a use for self-help testimonies.
  17. Nouvelles
    Avec le canot de l'amiral
    Author: Mouton, Eugene
    Published: 2015
    Publisher:  Ligaran, [Place of publication not identified]

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    Language: French
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    ISBN: 9782335163100
    Subjects: Authors; Bereavement; Self-help techniques; Loss (Psychology)
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  18. Erfolgreiche Rhetorik
    Faire und unfaire Verhaltensweisen in Rede und Gespräch
    Author: Vogt, Gustav
    Published: 2010; ©2010.
    Publisher:  De Gruyter, München

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    Subjects: Public speaking; Oral communication; Rhetoric; Self-presentation; Literature; Self-help techniques; EDUCATION / General
    Scope: Online-Ressource (XII, 299 S.)
  19. The self-help compulsion
    searching for advice in modern literature
    Author: Blum, Beth
    Published: [2020]
    Publisher:  Columbia University Press, New York, NY

    Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- 1. Self-Help's Portable Wisdom -- 2. Bouvard and Pécuchet: Flaubert's DIY Dystopia -- 3. Negative Visualization -- 4. Joyce for Life -- 5. Modernism Without Tears -- 6. Practicality Hunger... more

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    Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- 1. Self-Help's Portable Wisdom -- 2. Bouvard and Pécuchet: Flaubert's DIY Dystopia -- 3. Negative Visualization -- 4. Joyce for Life -- 5. Modernism Without Tears -- 6. Practicality Hunger -- Coda: The Shadow University of Self-Help -- Notes -- Index Samuel Beckett as a guru for business executives? James Joyce as a guide to living a good life? The notion of notoriously experimental authors sharing a shelf with self-help books might seem far-fetched, yet a hidden history of rivalry, influence, and imitation links these two worlds. In The Self-Help Compulsion, Beth Blum reveals the profound entanglement of modern literature and commercial advice from the late nineteenth century to the present day.Blum explores popular reading practices in which people turn to literature in search of practical advice alongside modern writers' rebukes of such instrumental purposes. As literary authors positioned themselves in opposition to people like Samuel Smiles and Dale Carnegie, readers turned to self-help for the promises of mobility, agency, and practical use that serious literature was reluctant to supply. Blum unearths a series of unlikely cases of the love-hate relationship between serious fiction and commercial advice, from Gustave Flaubert's mockery of early DIY culture to Dear Abby's cutting diagnoses of Nathanael West and from Virginia Woolf's ambivalent polemics against self-improvement to the ways that contemporary global authors such as Mohsin Hamid and Tash Aw explicitly draw on the self-help genre. She also traces the self-help industry's tendency to popularize, "e, and adapt literary wisdom and considers what it might have to teach today's university. Offering a new history of self-help's origins, appeal, and cultural and literary import around the world, this book reveals that self-help's most valuable secrets are not about getting rich or winning friends but about how and why people read

     
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    Language: English
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    ISBN: 9780231551083
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    RVK Categories: EC 2000 ; EC 2430
    Subjects: Reading interests; Psychology in literature; Psychological literature; Books and reading; Fiction; Fiction; Psychology and literature; Self-help techniques; HISTORY / United States / 20th Century; LITERARY CRITICISM / Books & Reading
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (xvi, 328 Seiten), Illustrationen
  20. Die Sprache des Erfolgs
    Rhetorik und Persönlichkeit - so stärken Sie Ihr Ich
    Author: Enkelmann, Nikolaus B.
    Published: 1998
    Publisher:  Gabler, Wiesbaden

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    ISBN: 3409296263
    RVK Categories: AK 39700 ; CM 2200 ; MS 8050 ; QP 621
    Edition: 2. Aufl.
    Series: Sales-Profi-Edition
    Subjects: Psychologie; Self-culture; Self-help techniques; Self-talk; Success; Psychologie; Verkaufsgespräch; Rhetorik; Sales-promotion
    Scope: 235 S., graph. Darst.
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    1. Aufl. u.d.T.: Enkelmann, Nikolaus B.: Power der Verkaufsrhetorik
  21. Michael Faraday's mental exercises
    an artisan essay-circle in Regency London
    Contributor: Jenkins, Alice (Hrsg.)
    Published: 2008
    Publisher:  Liverpool University Press, Liverpool

    In 1818 Michael Faraday and a handful of other London artisans formed a self-help group with the aim of teaching themselves to write like gentlemen. For a year and a half Faraday's essay-circle met regularly to read aloud and criticise one another's... more

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    In 1818 Michael Faraday and a handful of other London artisans formed a self-help group with the aim of teaching themselves to write like gentlemen. For a year and a half Faraday's essay-circle met regularly to read aloud and criticise one another's writings. The 'Mental Exercises' they produced are a record of the life, literary tastes and social and political ideas of Dissenting artisans in Regency London. This book is the first to publish the essays and poems produced by Faraday's circle. The complete corpus of the essay-circle's writings is accompanied by detailed annotations, extracts from key sources and a full-length introduction explaining the biographical, historical and literary context of the group

     
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  22. The self-help compulsion
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    Author: Blum, Beth
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    "Samuel Beckett as a guru for business executives? James Joyce as a guide to living a good life? The notion of notoriously experimental authors sharing a shelf with self-help books might seem far-fetched, yet a hidden history of rivalry, influence, and imitation links these two worlds. In The Self-Help Compulsion, Beth Blum reveals the profound entanglement of modern literature and commercial advice from the late nineteenth century to the present day"-- "Blum explores popular reading practices in which people turn to literature in search of practical advice alongside modern writers' rebukes of such instrumental purposes. As literary authors positioned themselves in opposition to people like Samuel Smiles and Dale Carnegie, readers turned to self-help for the promises of mobility, agency, and use that serious literature was reluctant to supply. Blum unearths a series of unlikely cases of the love-hate relationship between serious fiction and commercial advice, from Gustave Flaubert's mockery of early DIY culture to Dear Abby's cutting diagnoses of Nathanael West and from Virginia Woolf's ambivalent polemics against self-improvement to the ways that contemporary global authors such as Mohsin Hamid and Tash Aw explicitly draw on the self-help genre. She traces the self-help industry's tendency to quote, repurpose, and adapt literary wisdom and considers what self-help might have to teach today's university. Offering a new account of self-help's origins, appeal, and cultural and literary import around the world, this book reveals that self-help's most valuable secrets are not about getting rich or winning friends but about how and why people read" --

     
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    ISBN: 9780231194921
    RVK Categories: EC 2000 ; EC 2430
    Subjects: Fiction; Fiction; Psychology in literature; Psychology and literature; Psychological literature; Books and reading; Reading interests; Self-help techniques
    Scope: xiv, 328 Seiten, Illustrationen
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    Includes bibliographical references and index
  23. Helping me help myself
    one skeptic, ten self-help gurus and a year on the brink of the comfort zone
    Author: Lisick, Beth
    Published: 2009
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    ISBN: 0061710733; 9780061710735
    Edition: 1. Harper paperback publ.
    Subjects: Women; Self-help techniques
    Scope: XVI, 266 S., Ill.
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    Includes bibliographical references and index. - Originally published: New York: William Morrow, 2008, hardcover
  24. The self-help compulsion
    searching for advice in modern literature
    Author: Blum, Beth
    Published: [2020]
    Publisher:  Columbia University Press, New York, NY

    Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- 1. Self-Help's Portable Wisdom -- 2. Bouvard and Pécuchet: Flaubert's DIY Dystopia -- 3. Negative Visualization -- 4. Joyce for Life -- 5. Modernism Without Tears -- 6. Practicality Hunger... more

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    Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- 1. Self-Help's Portable Wisdom -- 2. Bouvard and Pécuchet: Flaubert's DIY Dystopia -- 3. Negative Visualization -- 4. Joyce for Life -- 5. Modernism Without Tears -- 6. Practicality Hunger -- Coda: The Shadow University of Self-Help -- Notes -- Index Samuel Beckett as a guru for business executives? James Joyce as a guide to living a good life? The notion of notoriously experimental authors sharing a shelf with self-help books might seem far-fetched, yet a hidden history of rivalry, influence, and imitation links these two worlds. In The Self-Help Compulsion, Beth Blum reveals the profound entanglement of modern literature and commercial advice from the late nineteenth century to the present day.Blum explores popular reading practices in which people turn to literature in search of practical advice alongside modern writers' rebukes of such instrumental purposes. As literary authors positioned themselves in opposition to people like Samuel Smiles and Dale Carnegie, readers turned to self-help for the promises of mobility, agency, and practical use that serious literature was reluctant to supply. Blum unearths a series of unlikely cases of the love-hate relationship between serious fiction and commercial advice, from Gustave Flaubert's mockery of early DIY culture to Dear Abby's cutting diagnoses of Nathanael West and from Virginia Woolf's ambivalent polemics against self-improvement to the ways that contemporary global authors such as Mohsin Hamid and Tash Aw explicitly draw on the self-help genre. She also traces the self-help industry's tendency to popularize, "e, and adapt literary wisdom and considers what it might have to teach today's university. Offering a new history of self-help's origins, appeal, and cultural and literary import around the world, this book reveals that self-help's most valuable secrets are not about getting rich or winning friends but about how and why people read

     
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9780231551083
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    RVK Categories: EC 2000 ; EC 2430
    Subjects: Reading interests; Psychology in literature; Psychological literature; Books and reading; Fiction; Fiction; Psychology and literature; Self-help techniques; HISTORY / United States / 20th Century; LITERARY CRITICISM / Books & Reading
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  25. Where there's a will there's a way
    or, all I really need to know I learned from Shakespeare
    Author: Maguire, Laurie E.
    Published: 2006
    Publisher:  Perigee Book, New York, NY

    Location:
    Niedersächsische Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Göttingen
    Signature:
    2007 A 2638
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    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Print
    ISBN: 0399532943; 9780399532948
    Subjects: Conduct of life; Self-help techniques; Life skills; Psychology and literature
    Other subjects: Shakespeare, William (1564-1616)
    Scope: x, 214 S, 21 cm
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    Includes bibliographical references (S. 205)

    Identity -- Family -- Friends -- The battle of the sexes : comedy -- The battle of the sexes : tragedy -- Unrequited love -- Acceptance -- Anger -- Jealousy -- Positive thinking -- Forgiveness -- Taking risks -- Maturity -- Loss