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Attention Equals Life - The Pursuit of the Everyday in Contemporary Poetry and Culture (Hardcover)
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Attention Equals Life - The Pursuit of the Everyday in Contemporary Poetry and Culture (Hardcover)
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Attention Equals Life examines why a quest to pay attention to
daily life has increasingly become a central feature of both
contemporary American poetry and the wider culture of which it is a
part. Drawing on theories and debates about the nature of everyday
life from a number of fields across the humanities, this book
traces the modern history of this preoccupation and consider why it
is so much with us today. Attention Equals Life argues that it is
no coincidence that a potent hunger for everyday life explodes in
the post-1945 period. This deep cultural need should be seen as a
reaction to the rapid and dislocating cultural, political, and
social transformations of this epoch, which have resulted in a
culture of perilous distraction, interruption, and fragmented
attention. The book argues that poetry is an important, and perhaps
unlikely, cultural form that has mounted a response, and even
method of resistance, to a culture gradually losing its capacity to
pay attention. It examines why a compulsion to represent the
everyday becomes predominant in the decades after modernism, why it
has so often led to unusual, challenging projects and formal
innovation, and why poetry, in particular, might be an
everyday-life genre par excellence. The book considers the variety
of forms this preoccupation takes, and examines its aesthetic,
philosophical, and political ramifications. By exploring the use of
innovative strategies, unusual projects, and new technologies as
methods of attending to dailiness, Attention Equals Life uncovers
an important strain at the heart of twentieth and twenty-first
century literature.
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