Spoiler Alert: A Critical Guide (Forerunners: Ideas First) - Softcover

Jaffe, Aaron

 
9781517908034: Spoiler Alert: A Critical Guide (Forerunners: Ideas First)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1517908035 ISBN 13: 9781517908034
Publisher: Univ Of Minnesota Press, 2019

Synopsis

All of this information at our fingertips—and we might not need any of it

Concurrent with the compulsory connectivity of the digital age is the rise of the spoiler. The inevitability of information has changed the critical quality of modernity, leaving us with acute vertigo—a feeling that nothing new is left out there. Encompassing memes and trigger warnings, Vilem Flusser and Thomas Pynchon, Spoiler Alert wrangles with the state of surprise in post-historical times. Aaron Jaffe delivers a timely corrective to post-critical modes of reading that demonstrates the dangers of forfeiting critical suspicion.

Forerunners: Ideas First
Short books of thought-in-process scholarship, where intense analysis, questioning, and speculation take the lead

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About the Author

Aaron Jaffe is Frances Cushing Ervin Professor of American Literature at Florida State University. His books include Modernism and the Culture of Celebrity and The Way Things Go (Minnesota, 2014).

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Publisher
Univ Of Minnesota Press
Publication date
2019
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1517908035
ISBN 13 
9781517908034
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
100