Habits of Distraction

Michael Wood (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

192 Seiten

2018
Liverpool University Press (Verlag)
978-1-84519-250-1 (ISBN)

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Starting with Walter Benjamin's idea of 'reception in a state of distraction' and looking briefly at some antecedents for Benjamin's thinking, this book develops a working model of distraction in interpretation. It includes examples that are taken from film (Benjamin's test case), literature, music, painting and photography.

Starting with Walter Benjamin's idea of 'reception in a state of distraction' and looking briefly at some antecedents for Benjamin's thinking, this book develops a working model of distraction in interpretation. Examples are taken from film (Benjamin's test case), literature, music, painting and photography; the book closes with a 'distracted' reading of a classic work of concentration: Milton's Paradise Lost.

Michael Wood is Professor Emeritus of English and Comparative Literature at Princeton University. He writes regularly for the London Review of Books and the New York Review of Books, among other journals.

Reihe/Serie	Critical Inventions
Verlagsort	Liverpool
Sprache	englisch
Maße	229 x 152 mm
Gewicht	198 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
ISBN-10	1-84519-250-8 / 1845192508
ISBN-13	978-1-84519-250-1 / 9781845192501
Zustand	Neuware