{"product_id":"9781433118043","title":"Voyage Across a Constellation of Information: Information Literacy in Interest-Driven Learning Communities","description":"The scheme of SMPHONY, if atypical, is simple: It goes where it seems to want to go, at any given moment. Although each section connects to the preceding by a logical or psychological thread (and there is an arc that connects the ending to the beginning), the book is not linear in the traditional sense. I believe that the sense of linear continuity is precisely what is lacking in our lives, and that, willy-nilly, the impact of quick-cutting in the movies has made our minds comfortable with rapid and abrupt changes; if not full of wrenching twists and turns, our lives are collages more than they are straight lines.\u003cp\u003eIt should be noted that there is some bawdiness in SYMPHONY: not obscenity, I hope, but an occasional touch of earthiness. I reason that if millions of people, children as well as adults, can respond favorably to a movie with a major character named Pussy Galore, readers can take my ribaldry in the spirit of broad fun in which it is intended.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFinally, I am guided by two notions. The first is Kafka's admonition, \"To hell with psychology,\" and the second is Henry James's assertion that, in the end, the only criterion by which a novel can be judged good is whether or not it is interesting.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47042259747056,"sku":"9781433118043","price":39.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781433118043_p0.jpg?v=1763750442","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781433118043","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}