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Habits of Distraction

Habits of Distraction

Hardcover

Series: Critical Inventions

Literary CriticismGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 1845192494
ISBN13: 9781845192495
Publisher: Sussex Academic Pr
Published: Jul 1 2018
Pages: 192
Weight: 0.65
Height: 0.50 Width: 5.90 Depth: 9.10
Language: English
Starting with Walter Benjamin's idea of 'reception in a state of distraction' and looking briefly at some antecedents for Benjamin's thinking, this book develops a working model of distraction in interpretation. Examples are taken from film (Benjamin's test case), literature, music, painting and photography; the book closes with a 'distracted' reading of a classic work of concentration: Milton's Paradise Lost.

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