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What is the role of literary studies in an age of Twitter threads and viral news?

If the study of literature today is not just about turning to classic texts with age-old questions, neither is it a rejection of close reading or critical inquiry. Through the lived experience of a humanities professor in a rapidly changing world, this book explores how the careful study of literature and culture may be precisely what we need to navigate our dizzying epoch of post-truth politics and ecological urgency.

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Schaberg asks us to consider the work of literature not so much as an antidote to 'post-truth' political culture in the USA as an alternative way of life. Here literature figures as lively engagement with the world, a practice of enthusiasm and commitment. * Stephanie LeMenager, Moore Endowed Professor of English and Environmental Studies, University of Oregon, USA *

Earth to reader: come in, do you read me, over. Think about it. Ecological awareness implies taking into account a hugely expanded set of nonhuman beings. This means more nuances and ambiguities. There are people who have trained to tolerate plenty of both: they are called literature scholars. Literary ways of sustaining patriarchal racist heteronormative (and so on) are done: we know too much now. But that doesn't mean the journey of reading literature is over, as if only white guys wrote poems. This rapidly cascading kaleidoscope of lovely readings and thoughts about reading, by the generous and imaginatively mercurial Christopher Schaberg, shows you how, amounting to a guidebook on proclaiming the significance of the Humanities in visualizing different futures. * Timothy Morton, Rita Shea Guffey Chair in English, Rice University, USA, and author of Humankind (2017) *

About the Author

Christopher Schaberg is Director of the Program in Public Scholarship at Washington University in St. Louis, USA, and the author of The Textual Life of Airports (2012), The End of Airports (2015), Airportness (2017), The Work of Literature in an Age of Post-Truth (2018), Searching for the Anthropocene (2019), Pedagogy of the Depressed (2021), and Adventure: An Argument for Limits (2023), all published by Bloomsbury. He is also the founding co-editor (with Ian Bogost) of Bloomsbury's Object Lessons book series.