Schweizer, Harold, 1950-
On lingering and literature / Harold Schweizer. - 1 online resource - Routledge Focus on Literature .
Lingering and its decried equivalents, such as dawdling, idling, loafing, or lolling about, are both shunned and coveted in our culture where time is money and where there is never quite enough of either. Is lingering lazy? Is it childish? Boring? Do poets linger? (Is that why poetry is boring?) Is it therapeutic? Should we linger more? Less? What happens when we linger? Harold Schweizer here examines an experience of time that, though common, usually passes unnoticed. Drawing on a wide range of philosophic and literary texts and examples, On Lingering and Literature exemplifies in its style and accessible argumentation the new genre of post-criticism, and aims to reward anyone interested in slow reading, daydreaming, or resisting our culture of speed and consumption.
9781000361995 1000361993 9781000362053 1000362051 9781003155850 1003155855 9781000362022 1000362027
10.4324/9781003155850 doi
Lingering in literature.
Time perception in literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM / General
PN56.L537
809.9384
On lingering and literature / Harold Schweizer. - 1 online resource - Routledge Focus on Literature .
Lingering and its decried equivalents, such as dawdling, idling, loafing, or lolling about, are both shunned and coveted in our culture where time is money and where there is never quite enough of either. Is lingering lazy? Is it childish? Boring? Do poets linger? (Is that why poetry is boring?) Is it therapeutic? Should we linger more? Less? What happens when we linger? Harold Schweizer here examines an experience of time that, though common, usually passes unnoticed. Drawing on a wide range of philosophic and literary texts and examples, On Lingering and Literature exemplifies in its style and accessible argumentation the new genre of post-criticism, and aims to reward anyone interested in slow reading, daydreaming, or resisting our culture of speed and consumption.
9781000361995 1000361993 9781000362053 1000362051 9781003155850 1003155855 9781000362022 1000362027
10.4324/9781003155850 doi
Lingering in literature.
Time perception in literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM / General
PN56.L537
809.9384