The Labour of Laziness in Twentieth-Century American Literature

ISBN-13: 9781474442930 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 296 str.

Zuzanna Ladyga

Spis treści

Acknowledgements; Preface; Introduction; 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 Heminwgway’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 on the Fiction Of Donald Barthelme; 7. Acedia And David Foster Wallace’s The Pale King; Epilogue; Index.