The Culture of Boredom

Erscheinungsjahr 2020
ISBN: 978-90-04-42722-8
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 40, 308 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 607 g

Reihe: Critical Studies

The Culture of Boredom is a collection of essays by well-known specialists reflecting from philosophical, literary, and artistic perspectives, in which the reader will learn how different disciplines can throw light on such an appealing, challenging, yet still not fully understood, phenomenon. The goal is to clarify the background of boredom, and to explore its representation through forgotten cross-cutting narratives beyond the typical approaches, i.e. those of psychology or psychiatry. For the first time this experienced group of scholars gathers to promote a cross-border dialogue from a multidisciplinary perspective.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Velasco, Josefa Ros

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Ästhetik
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunst, allgemein Kunsttheorie, Kunstphilosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Prosa, Erzählung, Roman, Prosaautoren
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturtheorie: Poetik und Literaturästhetik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations

Abbreviations

Notes on Contributors

emsp;Introduction: Humanities Still Have a Say in Boredom Studies

emsp;emsp;Josefa Ros Velasco

emsp;emsp;Part 1

Boredom and Society

1 Boredom and the Disciplinary Imaginary

emsp;emsp;Elizabeth S. Goodstein

2 The Multitude Strikes Back? Boredom in an Age of Semiocapitalism

emsp;emsp;Michael E. Gardiner

3 Boredom: a Political Issue

emsp;emsp;George García Quesada

4 About Boredom: Hermeneutic Looks and Existential Analysis in Modernity

emsp;emsp;Juan Diego Hernández Albarracín and Carlos Fernando Álvarez González

5 Too Much Time: Changing Conceptions of Boredom, Progress, and the Future among Young Men in Urban Ethiopia, 2003–2015

emsp;emsp;Daniel Mains

emsp;emsp;Part 2

Boredom and Literature

6 Immersed in Boredom: the Architecture of Brisbane in Johnno

emsp;emsp;Christian Rafael Parreño Roldán

7 The Presence of Literature: Georg Büchner’s Comedy Leonce und Lena

emsp;emsp;Wolfram Malte Fues

8 Upper-Class Female Boredom in Marriage in 19th-Century Western Literature as a Manifestation of Socio-Cultural Pressures

emsp;emsp;Josefa Ros Velasco and Nancy Provolt

9 Men Walking into Woods. Boredom, Nihilism, and the Characters of Erlend Loe

emsp;emsp;Martin Demant Frederiksen

Part 3

Boredom and Creativity

10 The Art of Boring (Oneself)

emsp;emsp;Jorge Andrés Espinoza Cáceres

11 Perfect Boredom: From Disillusion to Creativity

emsp;emsp;Sergio Velasco Caballero

12 A Cartography of Boredom: Reading for Affectivity in Contemporary Poetry

emsp;emsp;Kristiine Kikas

13 Boredom and Institutional Critique

emsp;emsp;Judy Freya Sibayan

emsp;Postface Rhymed Reflections on Boredom

emsp;emsp;Francisco Cardoso Gomes de Matos

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Josefa Ros Velasco is Postdoctoral Fellow at Complutense University of Madrid. She was Teaching Assistant in the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures at Harvard University and RCC Postdoctoral Fellow (2017-2019). She holds an International Ph.D. in Philosophy (Excellent Program of Doctorate in Philosophy at Complutense University of Madrid) as a scholar of the Spanish Ministry of Education (with Extraordinary Doctorate Award, 2017).