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This book argues that major twentieth-century American writers such as Gertrude Stein, Ernest Hemingway, John Barth, Donald Barthelme and David Foster Wallace provocatively challenge the ethos of productivity by filtering their ethical interventions through culturally stigmatised imagery of laziness.

The Labour of Laziness in TwentiethCentury

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      Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
      Publication Date: 25/05/2021
      ISBN13: 9781474442930, 978-1474442930
      ISBN10: 1474442935
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      Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000 Ethics and moral philosophy

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      Book Synopsis
      This book argues that major twentieth-century American writers such as Gertrude Stein, Ernest Hemingway, John Barth, Donald Barthelme and David Foster Wallace provocatively challenge the ethos of productivity by filtering their ethical interventions through culturally stigmatised imagery of laziness.

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