Drawing on a wide range of philosophical and literary texts and examples, On Lingering and Literature exemplifies in its style and accessible argumentation the new genre of post-criticism, and aims to reward anyone interested in slow reading, daydreaming, or resisting our culture of speed and consumption.
Drawing on a wide range of philosophical and literary texts and examples, On Lingering and Literature exemplifies in its style and accessible argumentation the new genre of post-criticism, and aims to reward anyone interested in slow reading, daydreaming, or resisting our culture of speed and consumption.
Harold Schweizer is Professor Emeritus of English at Bucknell University, USA, where he taught poetry, literary theory, and Holocaust and trauma studies. Recipient of two awards for excellence in teaching, he is a widely published poet and literary critic. His most recent books are On Waiting; Rarity and the Poetic; and the poetry volumes The Book of Stones and Angels , Miriam's Book, and The Genealogy of Elevators.
Inhaltsangabe
1. A Moment, Please 2. The Temporality of the Beautiful 3. The Economics of Waiting 4. The Poet's Idleness 5. The Ecstasy of Slowness 6. The Temporality of Whitman's Grass 7. The Slowness of Looking 8. Virginia Woolf's Indescribable Pause 9. Proustian Interludes 10. The Weight of Sebald's Time 11. Instead of Concluding: Stopping
1. A Moment, Please 2. The Temporality of the Beautiful 3. The Economics of Waiting 4. The Poet's Idleness 5. The Ecstasy of Slowness 6. The Temporality of Whitman's Grass 7. The Slowness of Looking 8. Virginia Woolf's Indescribable Pause 9. Proustian Interludes 10. The Weight of Sebald's Time 11. Instead of Concluding: Stopping
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