Bring on the Books for Everybody:In this lively, always insightful but never predictable book, Jim Collins claims that literary culture is alive and well today, but that to understand it we must also understand the variety of institu
by Jim Collins
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Product Code: 1334755986
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Number of Pages: 300
Binding: Paper Back
Publisher: Duke University Press Books
ISBN: 0822346060
ISSN: 978-0822346067
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Summary: Jim Collins opens his book Bring on the Books for Everybody in the coffee shop at a Barnes & Noble Superstore. There he reflects on what the people around him are talking about and what the décor of the store signifies. He spends a lot of time thinking about literature and popular culture. He has one foot in the academic world as a professor of English Literature, and the other foot in the pop culture world as a father of Harry Potter fans and as a professor of television studies. Or does TV studies at university count as the academic world? Tough call. The line isn't clear and the rest of the book explores the ever-blurring boundary between Literature with a capital "L" and the literature of book clubs and Oprah and best seller lists.