TY  - GEN
T1  - The labour of laziness in twentieth-century American literature
T2  - Modern American literature and the new twentieth century.
A1  - Ladyga, Zuzanna
LA  - English
PP  - Edinburgh
PB  - Edinburgh University Press
YR  - 2019
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/jstor_eba_on1128271838
AB  - Focuses on the issue of productivity, using the figure of laziness to negotiate the relation between the ethical and the aesthetic. This book argues that major twentieth-century American writers such as Gertrude Stein, Ernest Hemingway, John Barth, Donald Barthelme and David Foster Wallace provocatively challenge the ethos of productivity by filtering their ethical interventions through culturally stigmatized imagery of laziness. The author argues that when the motif of laziness appears, it invariably reveals the underpinnings of an emerging value system at a given historical moment, while at the same time offering a glimpse into the strategies of rebelling against the status quo.
OP  - 279
CN  - PS228.L42 L33 2019eb
SN  - 9781474442947
SN  - 1474442943
SN  - 1474442927
SN  - 9781474442923
SN  - 9781474442954
SN  - 1474442951
KW  - American literature : 20th century : History and criticism.
KW  - Laziness in literature.
KW  - Littérature américaine : 20e siècle : Histoire et critique.
KW  - Paresse dans la littérature.
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM : American : General.
KW  - American literature
KW  - Laziness in literature
KW  - 1900-1999
KW  - Electronic books.
KW  - Criticism, interpretation, etc.
ER  -