The Labour of Laziness in Twentieth-Century American Literature / / Zuzanna Ladyga.
Analyses the theme of laziness in twentieth-century American LiteratureUncovers the ethical dimension of the writing of Stein, Hemingway, Barth, Barthelme and Wallace by situating them in the context of the 20th century non-normative ethical and aesthetic traditionShows how the Romantic interest in...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022] ©2019 |
| Year of Publication: | 2022 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Modern American Literature and the New Twentieth Century : MALN20C
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (296 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- Acknowledgements
- Preface
- Introduction: Doing Nothing in America
- Part I: The Philosophical and Literary Contexts of Laziness
- 1. Laziness as Concept-Metaphor
- 2. Laziness in American Literature: The Inaugural Moment
- Part II: The Modernist Moment of Laziness
- 3. Cessation and inaction externe: Gertrude Stein and Marcel Duchamp
- 4. Laziness and Tactility in Ernest Hemingway’s The Garden of Eden
- Part III: The Postmodern Moment of Laziness
- 5. Exhaustion of Possibilities: Harold Rosenberg, John Barth and Susan Sontag
- 6. Inertia and Not-Knowing in the Fiction of Donald Barthelme
- 7. Acedia and David Foster Wallace’s The Pale King
- Epilogue
- Index