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Contemporary Fictions of Attention
Reading and Distraction in the Twenty-First Century
Taschenbuch von Alice Bennett
Sprache: Englisch

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With the supposed shortening of our attention spans, what future is there for fiction in the age of the internet? Contemporary Fictions of Attention rejects this discourse of distraction-crisis which suggests that the future of reading is in peril, and instead finds that contemporary writers construct 'fictions of attention' that find some value in states or moments of inattention. Through discussion of work by a diverse selection of writers, including Joshua Cohen, Ben Lerner, Tom McCarthy, Ali Smith, Zadie Smith, and David Foster Wallace, this book identifies how fiction prompts readers to become peripherally aware of their own attention. Contemporary Fictions of Attention locates a common interest in attention within 21st-century fiction and connects this interest to a series of debates surrounding ethics, temporality, the everyday, boredom, work, and self-discipline in contemporary culture.
With the supposed shortening of our attention spans, what future is there for fiction in the age of the internet? Contemporary Fictions of Attention rejects this discourse of distraction-crisis which suggests that the future of reading is in peril, and instead finds that contemporary writers construct 'fictions of attention' that find some value in states or moments of inattention. Through discussion of work by a diverse selection of writers, including Joshua Cohen, Ben Lerner, Tom McCarthy, Ali Smith, Zadie Smith, and David Foster Wallace, this book identifies how fiction prompts readers to become peripherally aware of their own attention. Contemporary Fictions of Attention locates a common interest in attention within 21st-century fiction and connects this interest to a series of debates surrounding ethics, temporality, the everyday, boredom, work, and self-discipline in contemporary culture.
Über den Autor
Alice Bennett is senior lecturer in English Literature at Liverpool Hope University, UK. She has published on contemporary fiction in Critique, the Oxford Literary Review, and Textual Practice and is the author of Afterlife and Narrative in Contemporary Fiction(2012).
Zusammenfassung
Offers fresh analysis of how contemporary writers explore attention, and develops this analysis into an argument about the significance of 'fictions of attention' in twenty-first-century literature
Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements

1. Fictions of Attention
2. "Focus, people!" (David Foster Wallace)
3. Present-Mindedness (Joshua Cohen)
4. The Distraction of Both (Ali Smith)
5. Amputated Attention (Tom McCarthy)
6. Beginning to Mind (Zadie Smith)
7. Reading Absorption (Ben Lerner)

Notes
Works Cited
Index

Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2020
Genre: Importe, Lyrik & Dramatik
Rubrik: Belletristik
Medium: Taschenbuch
ISBN-13: 9781350150843
ISBN-10: 1350150843
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Bennett, Alice
Hersteller: Continnuum-3PL
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße: 234 x 156 x 13 mm
Von/Mit: Alice Bennett
Erscheinungsdatum: 20.02.2020
Gewicht: 0,342 kg
Artikel-ID: 127475935
Über den Autor
Alice Bennett is senior lecturer in English Literature at Liverpool Hope University, UK. She has published on contemporary fiction in Critique, the Oxford Literary Review, and Textual Practice and is the author of Afterlife and Narrative in Contemporary Fiction(2012).
Zusammenfassung
Offers fresh analysis of how contemporary writers explore attention, and develops this analysis into an argument about the significance of 'fictions of attention' in twenty-first-century literature
Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements

1. Fictions of Attention
2. "Focus, people!" (David Foster Wallace)
3. Present-Mindedness (Joshua Cohen)
4. The Distraction of Both (Ali Smith)
5. Amputated Attention (Tom McCarthy)
6. Beginning to Mind (Zadie Smith)
7. Reading Absorption (Ben Lerner)

Notes
Works Cited
Index

Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2020
Genre: Importe, Lyrik & Dramatik
Rubrik: Belletristik
Medium: Taschenbuch
ISBN-13: 9781350150843
ISBN-10: 1350150843
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Bennett, Alice
Hersteller: Continnuum-3PL
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße: 234 x 156 x 13 mm
Von/Mit: Alice Bennett
Erscheinungsdatum: 20.02.2020
Gewicht: 0,342 kg
Artikel-ID: 127475935
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