A01=Patricia Meyer Spacks
Author_Patricia Meyer Spacks
Category=DSB
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Product details
- ISBN 9780226768540
- Weight: 454g
- Dimensions: 15 x 23mm
- Publication Date: 01 Jun 1996
- Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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This text offers an explanation of why boredom both haunts and motivates the literary imagination. Moving from Samuel Johnson and Jane Austen to Donald Barthelme and Anita Brookner, the author shows us how we arrived in a postmodern world where boredom is the all-encompassing name we give our discontent.
