{"product_id":"the-culture-of-boredom-9789004427228","title":"The Culture of Boredom","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList 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","brand":"Brill","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53210797900119,"sku":"9789004427228","price":122.4,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-culture-of-boredom-9789004427228","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}