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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Ladyga, Zuzanna (Author)
Format: Licensed eBooks
Language:English
Published: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press [2019]
Series:Modern American literature and the new twentieth century.
Online Access:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.3366/j.ctvrs91vs