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Title: BOREDOM
THE LITERARY HISTORY OF A STATE OF MIND
By: Patricia Meyer Spacks
Format: Hardback

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ISBN 10: 0226768538
ISBN 13: 9780226768533
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Publisher: THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS
Pub. date: 1 December, 1994
Edition: 2nd ed.
Pages: 304
Description: An explanation of why boredom both haunts and motivates the literary imagination. Moving from Samuel Johnson to Donald Barthelme, from Jane Austen to Anita Brookner, Spacks shows us at last how we arrived in a postmodern world where boredom is the all-encompassing name we give our discontent.
Synopsis: This work offers an explanation of why boredom both haunts and motivates the literary imagination. Moving from Samuel Johnson to Donald Barthelme, from Jane Austen to Anita Brookner, Spacks shows us at last how we arrived in a postmodern world where boredom is the all-encompassing name we give our discontent. Her book aims to provide new insight into the cultural usefulness - and deep interest - of boredom as a state of mind.
Publication: US
Imprint: University of Chicago Press
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