Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Bennett, Alice

Titel

Contemporary fictions of attention : reading and distraction in the twenty-first century

Ort / Verlag

London ; New York ; Oxford ; New Delhi ; Sydney : Bloomsbury Academic

Erscheinungsjahr

2018

Link zu anderen Inhalten

• Inhaltsverzeichnis

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 185-203 und Index
• Fictions of attention -- 'Focus, people!' (David Foster Wallace) -- Present-mindedness (Joshua Cohen) -- The distraction of both (Ali Smith) -- Amputated attention (Tom McCarthy) -- Beginning to mind (Zadie Smith) -- Reading absorption (Ben Lerner)
• "With the supposed shortening of our collective attention spans, what future is there for long narrative fiction in the age of the internet? Contemporary Fictions of Attention maps out a shared interest in attention within 21st-century fiction and connects this interest to a series of debates surrounding ethics, work, the everyday, boredom and entertainment, as well as a broader context for the future of the book, fiction and reading itself in an increasingly digital culture. Alice Bennett examines work by writers including Joshua Cohen, Ben Lerner, Tom McCarthy, Ali Smith, Zadie Smith, and David Foster Wallace, and argues that they are all writing 'fictions of attention'"