Labour of laziness in twentieth-century american literature, the
Auteur :
Ladyga, Zuzanna
Éditeur :
Edinburgh University Press
ISBN :
9781474442930
Date de publication :
26 mai 2021
Dimensions :
21,6 x 13,8 cm
Poids :
370 g
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
Grande Bretagne
This book argues that major twentieth-century American writers such as Gertrude Stein, Ernest Hemingway, John Barth, Donald Barthelme and David Foster Wallace provocatively challenge the ethos of productivity by filtering their ethical interventions through culturally stigmatised imagery of laziness.