Harold Schweizer (USA Bucknell University)

On Waiting

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

What is the relationship between waiting and time? Is there an ethics of waiting, or even an art of waiting? Do the internet, online shopping and text messaging mean that waiting has come to an end? This book explores such and similar questions in fashion. It presents a philosophy of waiting.

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Produktdetails

• Thinking in Action
• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 170
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Juni 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 198mm x 129mm x 9mm
• Gewicht: 192g
• ISBN-13: 9780415775076
• ISBN-10: 0415775078
• Artikelnr.: 23493370

Autorenporträt

Harold Schweizer is Professor of English and Chair of the English Department at Bucknell University. He teaches courses in modern poetry, literary theory, holocaust studies, representations of suffering, and the comparative humanities. His publications include Suffering and the Remedy of Art (1997), The Bucknell Lectures in Literary Theory (ed. 1989-94), and others. His most recent publications, on the temporality of waiting, have appeared in Soundings, The University of Toronto Quarterly, and The Journal of Modern Literature.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Nobody Likes to Wait 2. A Brief Theory of Waiting: Henri Bergson's Lump
of Sugar 3. In the Waiting Room 4. Penelope's Insomnia 5. Lingering,
Tarrying, Dwelling upon: Elizabeth Bishop's Poem 6. Waiting for Death:
Ferdinand Hodler's Paintings of Valentine Gode-Darel 7. Waiting and Hoping:
Raymond Carver's A Small, Good Thing