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304 pages • first pub 1995 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780226768540
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 01 June 1996
Description
This book offers a witty explanation of why boredom both haunts and motivates the literary imagination. Moving from Samuel Johnson to Donald Barthelme, from Jane Austen to Anita Brookner, Spacks shows us at last how we arrived in a postmodern worl...
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304 pages • first pub 1995 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780226768540
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 01 June 1996
Description
This book offers a witty explanation of why boredom both haunts and motivates the literary imagination. Moving from Samuel Johnson to Donald Barthelme, from Jane Austen to Anita Brookner, Spacks shows us at last how we arrived in a postmodern worl...
Community Reviews
Content Warnings