Merve Emre: 4 books
Paraliterary
The Making of Bad Readers in Postwar America
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2017
Literature departments are staffed by, and tend to be focused on turning out, “good” readers—attentive to nuance, aware of history, interested in literary texts as self-contained works. But the vast majority of readers are, to use Merve Emre’s tongue-in-cheek term, “bad” readers. They...
by Merve Emre, Sophie Lewis, Annie Menzel
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2018
Feminist writers and scholars consider whether technology has made good on its promise to liberate women—sexually, biologically, economically, and politically.
In Once and Future Feminist, editor and lead essayist Merve Emre turns a critical eye on the role of technology in feminism both...
The Personality Brokers
The Strange History of Myers-Briggs and the Birth of Personality Testing
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2018
***A New York Times Critics' Best Book of 2018*
*An Economist Best Book of 2018*
*A Spectator Best Book of 2018*
*A Mental Floss Best Book of 2018*
An unprecedented history of the personality test conceived a century ago by a mother and her daughter--fiction writers with no formal training...
Digital Transformations in Turkey
Current Perspectives in Communication Studies
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2015
Digital Transformations in Turkey analyzes the genesis, dynamics, and operations of different communication contexts in relation to digital transformations in Turkey. The contributors tackle such topics as the impact of social networking channels like Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter and the changing...