The culture of boredom /

"The Culture of Boredom was born in fall 2017, when the outstanding national and international specialists in Boredom Studies, from a variety of disciplines such as psychology, philosophy, sociology, anthropology, comparative literature, and aesthetics, to name a few, and including myself, star...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Ros Velasco, Josefa, 1987- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Leiden ; Boston : Brill Rodopi, [2020]
Colección:Critical studies (Amsterdam, Netherlands) ; v. 40.
Temas:
Boredom.
Boredom in literature.
Ennui (Lassitude)
Ennui (Lassitude) dans la littérature.
Boredom
Boredom in literature
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Half Title
  • Series Information
  • Title Page
  • Copyright Page
  • Contents
  • Illustrations
  • Abbreviations
  • Notes on Contributors
  • Introduction: Humanities Still Have a Say in Boredom Studies
  • Bibliography
  • Part 1 Boredom and Society
  • Chapter 1 Boredom and the Disciplinary Imaginary
  • 1 Disciplinarity, Interdisciplinarity, and the Disciplinary Imaginary
  • 2 Attending to Attention
  • 3 Representing Boredom
  • 4 Defining Boredom
  • Bibliography
  • Chapter 2 The Multitude Strikes Back? Boredom in an Age of Semiocapitalism
  • 1 Introduction
  • 2 Capital and Affective Labor
  • 3 Boredom and Semiocapitalism
  • 4 Conclusions
  • Bibliography
  • Chapter 3 Boredom: a Political Issue
  • 1 Introduction
  • 2 German Idealism: Poetry and Abstraction
  • 3 Class and Boredom
  • 4 Democratizing Boredom
  • 5 Boredom and the Culture Industry
  • 6 A Reassertion of Boredom for the 21st Century?
  • 7 Conclusions
  • Bibliography
  • Chapter 4 About Boredom: Hermeneutic Looks and Existential Analysis in Modernity
  • 1 Introduction
  • 2 Brief Historic-Conceptual Explanation of Boredom
  • 3 Boredom by. Hermeneutical Perspectives
  • 4 Boredom in or the Inhabiting Silence of Boredom [Langweiligkeit]
  • 5 'Es ist einem langeweilig, ' or the Depth of Boredom
  • 6 Occupation of the Own and the Technological Relationships: Boredom in Modern Society
  • 7 Conclusion
  • Bibliography
  • Chapter 5 Too Much Time: Changing Conceptions of Boredom, Progress, and the Future among Young Men in Urban Ethiopia, 2003-2015
  • 1 Education and Expectations of Work
  • 2 Progress and the Problem of Time
  • 3 The Overaccumulation of Time
  • 4 "Africa Rising," a Developmental State, and the End of Boredom
  • 5 Growth without Change: Boredom and the Changing Urban Landscape
  • 6 Conclusion
  • Bibliography
  • Part 2 Boredom and Literature
  • Chapter 6 Immersed in Boredom: the Architecture of Brisbane in Johnno
  • 1 A Dual Movement
  • 1.1 Inside Brisbane
  • 1.2 Out of Brisbane
  • 1.3 Changed Brisbane
  • 2 Moving Boredom
  • Bibliography
  • Chapter 7 The Presence of Literature: Georg Büchner's Comedy Leonce und Lena
  • Bibliography
  • Chapter 8 Upper-Class Female Boredom in Marriage in 19th-Century Western Literature as a Manifestation of Socio-Cultural Pressures
  • 1 Introduction
  • 2 Boredom: a Reaction to a Context
  • 3 Some Literary Examples of Female Boredom in Marriage
  • 4 Female Pressures Translated into Boredom
  • 5 Boredom as a Driving Force towards Emancipation
  • 6 Final Considerations
  • Bibliography
  • Chapter 9 Men Walking into Woods. Boredom, Nihilism, and the Characters of Erlend Loe
  • 1 Introduction
  • 2 Doppler
  • 3 Fakta Om Finland
  • 4 Boredom and the Doing of Nothing
  • 5 The Inability to Be Bored
  • Bibliography
  • Part 3 Boredom and Creativity
  • Chapter 10 The Art of Boring (Oneself)
  • 1 Introduction

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