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Contemporary Fictions of Attention - Reading and Distraction in the Twenty-First Century (Hardcover)
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Contemporary Fictions of Attention - Reading and Distraction in the Twenty-First Century (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.
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