03442nam 22006731 450 991051171830332120180511082449.01-4742-8260-11-4742-8262-81-4742-8263-610.5040/9781474282604(CKB)4100000005465570(MiAaPQ)EBC6164809(MiAaPQ)EBC6033703(OCoLC)1090433744(UtOrBLW)bpp09262751(Au-PeEL)EBL6033703(OCoLC)1139914635(EXLCZ)99410000000546557020180205d2019 uy 0engurcnu||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierContemporary fictions of attention reading and distraction in the twenty-first century /Alice BennettLondon :Bloomsbury Publishing,2019.1 online resource (182 pages)1-350-15084-3 1-4742-8261-X Includes bibliographical references and index.Fictions of attention -- 'Focus, people!' (David Foster Wallace) -- Present-mindedness (Joshua Cohen) -- The distraction of both (Ali Smith) -- Amputated attention (Tom McCarthy) -- Beginning to mind (Zadie Smith) -- Reading absorption (Ben Lerner)."With the supposed shortening of our attention spans, what future is there for fiction in the age of the internet? Contemporary Fictions of Attention rejects this discourse of distraction-crisis which suggests that the future of reading is in peril, and instead finds that contemporary writers construct 'fictions of attention' that find some value in states or moments of inattention. Through discussion of work by a diverse selection of writers, including Joshua Cohen, Ben Lerner, Tom McCarthy, Ali Smith, Zadie Smith, and David Foster Wallace, this book identifies how fiction prompts readers to become peripherally aware of their own attention. Contemporary Fictions of Attention locates a common interest in attention within 21st-century fiction and connects this interest to a series of debates surrounding ethics, temporality, the everyday, boredom, work, and self-discipline in contemporary culture."--Bloomsbury Publishing.Reading and distraction in the 21st centuryReading distraction in the twenty-first centuryAmerican fiction21st centuryHistory and criticismAttentionBooks and readingPsychological aspectsDistraction (Psychology)English fiction21st centuryHistory and criticismFiction21st centuryHistory and criticismLiterature and technologyLiterary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writersElectronic books.American fictionHistory and criticism.Attention.Books and readingPsychological aspects.Distraction (Psychology)English fictionHistory and criticism.FictionHistory and criticism.Literature and technology.809.3/051Bennett Alice1982-1065862UtOrBLWUtOrBLWBOOK9910511718303321Contemporary fictions of attention2548164UNINA02857oam 22006134a 450 991078096150332120211027063530.0988-220-750-21-282-70942-99786612709425988-8052-83-7(CKB)2520000000009822(EBL)677569(OCoLC)646068524(SSID)ssj0000412212(PQKBManifestationID)11260310(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000412212(PQKBWorkID)10366125(PQKB)11504552(StDuBDS)EDZ0000035539(MdBmJHUP)muse7370(MiAaPQ)EBC677569(EXLCZ)99252000000000982220120411e20122007 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrThe Asian ModernCulture, Capitalist Development, Singapore /C.J.W.-L. WeeHong Kong [China] :Hong Kong University Press,[2007]Baltimore, Md. :Project MUSE,2012©[2007]1 online resource (229 p.)Description based upon print version of record.962-209-859-2 Includes bibliographical references (p. [197]-206) and index.Foreword / by Chua Beng Huat -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- ch. 1. The Asian modern --- pt. 1. Deterritorialisation -- ch. 2. The "modern" construction of postcolonial Singapore -- ch. 3. Economic development and the national narrative -- ch. 4. The homogenised urban environment and locality -- pt. 2. Reterritorialisation -- ch. 5. The state, ethnic identity and capitalism -- ch. 6. Staging cultural fragments, the Singaporean eunuch and the Asian Lear -- Epilogue : disciplinary modernisation, the Asian economic crisis and re-invention -- Notes -- Selected bibliography -- Index.How does one comprehend the phenomenon of the modernization of an Asian society in a globalized East Asian context? With this opening question, the author proceeds to give an account of how the modernization processes for postcolonial societies in Asia, such as those of India, Malaysia, and Singapore, are fraught with collaborations and conflicts between different socio-political, historical, economic, and cultural agents.Mass mediaSocial aspectsSingaporeCapitalismSingaporeSingaporeEconomic conditionsSingaporeSocial conditionsSingaporeCivilizationMass mediaSocial aspectsCapitalism302.23095957Wee C. J. Wan-ling1501383MdBmJHUPMdBmJHUPBOOK9910780961503321The Asian Modern3728494UNINA