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Drivetime: Literary Excursions in Automotive Consciousness

Drivetime: Literary Excursions in Automotive Consciousness

Pearce, Lynne

Paperback

PhilosophyLiterary Criticism

ISBN10: 1474431461
ISBN13: 9781474431460
Publisher: Edinburgh Univ Pr
Published: Feb 22 2018
Pages: 256
Weight: 0.65
Height: 0.60 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.10
Language: English

Engages literary texts in order to theorise the distinctive cognitive and affective experiences of driving
What sorts of things do we think about when we're driving - or being driven - in a car? Drivetime seeks to answer this question by drawing upon a rich archive of British and American texts from 'the motoring century' (1900-2000), paying particular attention to the way in which the practice of driving shapes and structures our thinking. While recent sociological and psychological research has helped explain how drivers are able to think about 'other things' while performing such a complex task, little attention has, as yet, been paid to the form these cognitive and affective journeys take. Pearce uses her close readings of literary texts - ranging from early twentieth-century motoring periodicals, Modernist and inter-war fiction, American 'road-trip' classics, and autobiography - in order to model different types of 'driving-event' and, by extension, the car's use as a means of phenomenological encounter, escape from memory, meditation, problem-solving and daydreaming.

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