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Contemporary Fictions of Attention
Alice Bennett
其他書名
Reading and Distraction in the Twenty-First Century
出版Bloomsbury Publishing, 2018-08-09
主題Literary Criticism / Comparative LiteratureLiterary Criticism / General
ISBN14742826289781474282628
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=enRkDwAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋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.