The Culture of Boredom

The Culture of Boredom
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Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 324
Release: 2020-04-28
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 900442749X


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Culture of Boredom is a collection of essays by well-known specialists reflecting from philosophical, literary, and artistic perspectives. The goal is to clarify the background of boredom, and to explore its representation through forgotten cross-cutting narratives.


The Culture of Boredom
Language: en
Pages: 324
Authors:
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-04-28 - Publisher: BRILL

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Culture of Boredom is a collection of essays by well-known specialists reflecting from philosophical, literary, and artistic perspectives. The goal is to clarif
Still Bored in a Culture of Entertainment
Language: en
Pages: 161
Authors: Richard Winter
Categories: Religion
Type: BOOK - Published: 2002-10-16 - Publisher: InterVarsity Press

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Richard Winter's critique of our "culture of entertainment" explores the nature, causes and effects of boredom and counteracts it with practical suggestions for
Modernism, Feminism and the Culture of Boredom
Language: en
Pages: 175
Authors: Allison Pease
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-08-27 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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Illustrates how boredom formed an important category of critique against the constraints of women's lives in British modernist literature.
Boredom
Language: en
Pages: 316
Authors: Patricia Meyer Spacks
Categories: Language Arts & Disciplines
Type: BOOK - Published: 1995 - Publisher: University of Chicago Press

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This book offers a witty explanation of why boredom both haunts and motivates the literary imagination. Moving from Samuel Johnson to Donald Barthelme, from Jan
Boredom
Language: en
Pages: 193
Authors: Peter Toohey
Categories: Psychology
Type: BOOK - Published: 2011-01-01 - Publisher: Yale University Press

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In the first book to argue for the benefits of boredom, Peter Toohey dispels the myth that it's simply a childish emotion or an existential malaise like Jean-Pa