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The Labour Of Laziness In Twentieth-Century American Literature (Modern American Literature And The New Twentieth Century)

The Labour Of Laziness In Twentieth-Century American Literature (Modern American Literature And The New Twentieth Century)

ISBN-13: 9781474442923
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This book argues that major twentieth-century American writers such as Gertrude Stein, Ernest Hemingway, John Barth, Donald Barthelme and David Foster Wallace provocatively challenge the ethos of productivity by filtering their ethical interventions through culturally stigmatised imagery of laziness.


  • | Author: Zuzanna Ladyga
  • | Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
  • | Publication Date: Aug 19, 2019
  • | Number of Pages: 296 pages
  • | Language: English
  • | Binding: Hardcover
  • | ISBN-10: 1474442927
  • | ISBN-13: 9781474442923
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