The labour of laziness in twentieth-century American literature /
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 provocati...
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| Format: | Licensed eBooks |
| Język: | angielski |
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Edinburgh :
Edinburgh University Press
[2019]
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| Seria: | Modern American literature and the new twentieth century.
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| Dostęp online: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.3366/j.ctvrs91vs |
Spis treści:
- Acknowledgements
- Preface. Introduction: doing nothing in America.
- Part 1 The philosophical and literary contexts of laziness : Laziness as concept-metaphor
- Laziness in American literature: the inaugural moment.
- Part 2 The modernist moment of laziness : Cessation and inaction externe: Gertrude Stein and Marcel Duchamp
- Laziness and tactility in Ernest Hemingway's The garden of Eden.
- Part 3 The postmodern moment of laziness : Exhaustion of possibilities: Harold Rosenberg, John Barth and Susan Sontag
- Inertia and not-knowing in the fiction of Donald Barthelme
- Acedia and David Foster Wallace's The pale king. Epilogue
- Index.