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Analyses the theme of laziness in twentieth-century American Literature Uncovers 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 tradition Shows how the Romantic interest in laziness plays out through the modernist and postmodernist moments in 20th century American literature Offers an innovative model of ethical reading based on the concept of unproductivity as an alternative to the dominant post-Romantic trends in the field of ethical criticism Presents the first comprehensive study of laziness as a theoretical concept, which draws on a range of religious and philosophical references points, spanning John Locke, Immanuel Kant, Martin Heidegger, Emmanuel Levinas, Theodor Adorno, Roland Barthes, Gilles Deleuze, Michel Foucault, Giorgio Agamben and Catherine Malabou The Labour of Laziness in Twentieth-Century American Literature focuses on the issue of productivity, using the figure of laziness to negotiate the relation between the ethical and the aesthetic. This book argues that major twentieth-century American writers such as Gertrude Stein, Ernest Hemin

Author

Ladyga, Zuzanna, author

Publisher

Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press

Published

2019

Language

EN

ISBN

9781474442923

Subjects

Literary Fiction, History, Literary Criticism