Beneath the Veil of the Strange Verses: Reading Scandalous Texts

by Jeremiah L. Alberg

Jeremiah Alberg's fascinating book explores a phenomenon almost every news reader has experienced: the curious tendency to skim over dispatches from war zones, political battlefields, and economic centers, only to be drawn in by headlines announcing a late-breaking scandal. Rationally we would agree that the former are of more significance and importance, but they do not pique our curiosity in quite the same way. The affective reaction to scandal...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1611860768
• ISBN13: 9781611860764
• Release Date: January 2013
• Publisher: Michigan State University Press
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 8.9"