Contemporary Fictions of Attention: Reading and Distraction in the Twenty-First Century by Bennett, Alice

Contemporary Fictions of Attention: Reading and Distraction in the Twenty-First Century (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781474282611)

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Format: Hardcover
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Contemporary Fictions of Attention: Reading and Distraction in the Twenty-First Century by Bennett, Alice

Contemporary Fictions of Attention: Reading and Distraction in the Twenty-First Century

$160.00
Contemporary Fictions of Attention: Reading and Distraction in the Twenty-First Century by Bennett, Alice

Contemporary Fictions of Attention: Reading and Distraction in the Twenty-First Century

$160.00
Format: Hardcover
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With the supposed shortening of our attention spans, what future is there for fiction in the age of the internet? Contemporary Fictions of Attention rejects this discourse of distraction-crisis which suggests that the future of reading is in peril, and instead finds that contemporary writers construct 'fictions of attention' that find some value in states or moments of inattention. Through discussion of work by a diverse selection of writers, including Joshua Cohen, Ben Lerner, Tom McCarthy, Ali Smith, Zadie Smith, and David Foster Wallace, this book identifies how fiction prompts readers to become peripherally aware of their own attention. Contemporary Fictions of Attention locates a common interest in attention within 21st-century fiction and connects this interest to a series of debates surrounding ethics, temporality, the everyday, boredom, work, and self-discipline in contemporary culture.

Author: Alice Bennett
ISBN-10: 147428261X
ISBN-13: 9781474282611
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Language: English
Published: 08/09/2018
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.08lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.56d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 03/01/2019
By Alice Bennett
By Alice Bennett
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Alice Bennett is senior lecturer in English Literature at Liverpool Hope University, UK. She has published on contemporary fiction in Critique, the Oxford Literary Review, and Textual Practice and is the author of Afterlife and Narrative in Contemporary Fiction (2012).

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