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The Year's Work in Nerds, Wonks, and Neocons Kindle Edition

by Jonathan P. Eburne (Editor), Benjamin Schreier (Editor), Dennis W. Allen (Contributor), Format: Kindle Edition

Part of: The Year's Work: Studies in Fan Culture and Cultural Theory (8 books)

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Essays on intellect, passion, alienation, and America’s geeky subcultures.

What happens when math nerds, band and theater geeks, goths, sci-fi fanatics, Young Republican debate poindexters, techies, Trekkies, D&D players, wallflowers, bookworms, and RPG players grow up? And what can they tell us about the life of the mind in the contemporary United States?

With recent years bringing us phenomena from #GamerGate to The Big Bang Theory, it’s clear that nerds, policy wonks, and neoconservatives play a major role in today’s popular culture. The Year’s Work in Nerds, Wonks, and Neocons delves into subcultures of intellectual history to explore their influence on contemporary American intellectual life. Not limiting themselves to describing how individuals are depicted, the authors consider the intellectual endeavors these depictions have come to represent, exploring many models and practices of learnedness, reflection, knowledge production, and opinion in the contemporary world.

As teachers, researchers, and university scholars continue to struggle for mainstream visibility, this book illuminates the other forms of intellectual excitement that have emerged alongside them and found ways to survive and even thrive in the face of dismissal or contempt.

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Jonathan P. Eburne is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature and English at Penn State. He is author of Surrealism and the Art of Crime and editor (with Judith Roof) of The Year's Work in the Oddball Archive.

Benjamin Schreier is Associate Professor of English and Jewish Studies and Lea P. and Malvin E. Bank Early Career Professor of Jewish Studies at Penn State University. He is author of The Power of Negative Thinking: Cynicism and the History of Modern American Literature and The Impossible Jew: Identity and the Reconstruction of Jewish American Literary History.

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B06ZZH4NYM
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Indiana University Press (April 17, 2017)
Publication date ‏ : ‎ April 17, 2017
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 4.2 MB
Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Print length ‏ : ‎ 372 pages

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Jonathan P. Eburne teaches at Penn State University, where he is Professor of Comparative Literature, English, and French and Francophone Studies. He is editor-in-chief of ASAP/Journal, the award-winning scholarly journal of ASAP: The Association for the Study of the Arts of the President (www.artsofthepresent.org).

Eburne is the author of *Outsider Theory* (University of Minnesota Press, 2018) and *Surrealism and the Art of Crime* (Cornell University Press, 2008), and is co-editor of four additional books: *Leonora Carrington and the International Avant-Garde* (2017), *The Year's Work in Nerds, Wonks, and Neo-Cons* (2017), *The Year's Work in the Oddball Archive* (2016), and *Paris, Modern Fiction, and the Black Atlantic* (2013). Eburne is founder and acting President of ISSS: The International Society for the Study of Surrealism; he is also President of the Association for the Study of Dada and Surrealism and past President of ASAP: The Association for the Arts of the Present. He also edits a book series, "Refiguring Modernism," at the Pennsylvania University Press, which publishes terrific scholarly books (http://www.psupress.org/books/series/book_SeriesRM.html). He lives in central Pennsylvania.