Garage Criticism
Peter Babiak
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Éditeur:
Anvil Press
Anvil Press
Protection:
Filigrane
Filigrane
Année de parution:
2017
2017
ISBN-13:
9781772140859
Description:
<p>Montaigne Medal Finalist (Eric Hoffer Awards)</p>
<p>In <i>Garage Criticism</i> Peter Babiak eviscerates and deflates some of the cultural sacred cows of our time. From <i>Fifty Shades of Grey</i> (“Hot for Teacher: What <i>Fifty Shades of Grey</i> Taught Me About Salacious Grammar, Sexy Women and the Scandalous Conflation of Cultural and Literary Culture”) to the disintegration of the “deep read” (“F You Professor: Tumblr, Triggers and the Allergies of Reading”) to the <i>Hunger Games</i> (“The Revolution Will Not Be Televised—But It Might Be Carnivalized ‘N’ Shit”) and <i>Twilight</i> (“Really Dumb Students”), through to student/professor relationships, inappropriate office visits, and a shared “voluptuous appetite for Nabokov.” Babiak deconstructs our fascination with internet culture, takes on the inanities of youthful, ungrammatical irises, devolves the rhetorical hallucinations of economics and marketing, and reasserts the supremacy of linguistic thinking in everyday cultural affairs.</p>
<p>Babiak’s is a new and timely voice in the arena of cultural criticism and critical theory.</p>
<p>Praise for <i>Garage Criticism</i>:</p>
<p>"... Somewhere, a transition takes place and the garage critic is replaced by the father, lover, the middle-aged man searching for some meaning in a silly world. The wisdom of this book doesn’t come from its dismantling of vacuous modern culture, but from its subtle examination of fatherhood, the follies of man, the inevitable fray of husbandry, and the tribulation of losing the ones you love. These are messages that are left nearly unsaid, unseen, but like stars resting beneath a sunrise, achingly they remain long after the book is closed.” (<i>Cascade</i>, UFV)</p>
<p>"It’s that dry tone that makes many of his think pieces as amusing as they are refreshing — they contain distinctly unfashionable views about all sorts of fashionable nonsense. …” (<i>The Tyee</i>)</p>
<p>In <i>Garage Criticism</i> Peter Babiak eviscerates and deflates some of the cultural sacred cows of our time. From <i>Fifty Shades of Grey</i> (“Hot for Teacher: What <i>Fifty Shades of Grey</i> Taught Me About Salacious Grammar, Sexy Women and the Scandalous Conflation of Cultural and Literary Culture”) to the disintegration of the “deep read” (“F You Professor: Tumblr, Triggers and the Allergies of Reading”) to the <i>Hunger Games</i> (“The Revolution Will Not Be Televised—But It Might Be Carnivalized ‘N’ Shit”) and <i>Twilight</i> (“Really Dumb Students”), through to student/professor relationships, inappropriate office visits, and a shared “voluptuous appetite for Nabokov.” Babiak deconstructs our fascination with internet culture, takes on the inanities of youthful, ungrammatical irises, devolves the rhetorical hallucinations of economics and marketing, and reasserts the supremacy of linguistic thinking in everyday cultural affairs.</p>
<p>Babiak’s is a new and timely voice in the arena of cultural criticism and critical theory.</p>
<p>Praise for <i>Garage Criticism</i>:</p>
<p>"... Somewhere, a transition takes place and the garage critic is replaced by the father, lover, the middle-aged man searching for some meaning in a silly world. The wisdom of this book doesn’t come from its dismantling of vacuous modern culture, but from its subtle examination of fatherhood, the follies of man, the inevitable fray of husbandry, and the tribulation of losing the ones you love. These are messages that are left nearly unsaid, unseen, but like stars resting beneath a sunrise, achingly they remain long after the book is closed.” (<i>Cascade</i>, UFV)</p>
<p>"It’s that dry tone that makes many of his think pieces as amusing as they are refreshing — they contain distinctly unfashionable views about all sorts of fashionable nonsense. …” (<i>The Tyee</i>)</p>