Author: Andrew Lyndon Knighton
Publisher: NYU Press
ISBN: 0814789390
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 255
Book Description
The 19th century witnessed an explosion of writing about unproductivity, with the exploits of various idlers, loafers, and “gentlemen of refinement” capturing the imagination o fa country that was deeply ambivalent about its work ethic. Idle Threats documents this American obsession with unproductivity and its potentials, while offering an explanation of the profound significance of idle practices for literary and cultural production. While this fascination with unproductivity memorably defined literary characters from Rip Van Winkle to Bartleby to George Hurstwood, it also reverberated deeply through the entire culture, both as a seductive ideal and as a potentially corrosive threat to upright, industrious American men. Drawing on an impressive array of archival material and multifaceted literary and cultural sources, Idle Threats connects the question of unproductivity to other discourses concerning manhood, the value of art, the allure of the frontier, the usefulness of knowledge,the meaning of individuality, and the experience of time, space, and history. Andrew Lyndon Knighton offers a new way of thinking about the largely unacknowledged “productivity of the unproductive,” revealing the incalculable and sometimes surprising ways in which American modernity transformed the relationship between subjects and that which is most intimate to them: their own activity.
Idle Threats
Author: Andrew Lyndon Knighton
Publisher: NYU Press
ISBN: 0814789390
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 255
Book Description
The 19th century witnessed an explosion of writing about unproductivity, with the exploits of various idlers, loafers, and “gentlemen of refinement” capturing the imagination o fa country that was deeply ambivalent about its work ethic. Idle Threats documents this American obsession with unproductivity and its potentials, while offering an explanation of the profound significance of idle practices for literary and cultural production. While this fascination with unproductivity memorably defined literary characters from Rip Van Winkle to Bartleby to George Hurstwood, it also reverberated deeply through the entire culture, both as a seductive ideal and as a potentially corrosive threat to upright, industrious American men. Drawing on an impressive array of archival material and multifaceted literary and cultural sources, Idle Threats connects the question of unproductivity to other discourses concerning manhood, the value of art, the allure of the frontier, the usefulness of knowledge,the meaning of individuality, and the experience of time, space, and history. Andrew Lyndon Knighton offers a new way of thinking about the largely unacknowledged “productivity of the unproductive,” revealing the incalculable and sometimes surprising ways in which American modernity transformed the relationship between subjects and that which is most intimate to them: their own activity.
Publisher: NYU Press
ISBN: 0814789390
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 255
Book Description
The 19th century witnessed an explosion of writing about unproductivity, with the exploits of various idlers, loafers, and “gentlemen of refinement” capturing the imagination o fa country that was deeply ambivalent about its work ethic. Idle Threats documents this American obsession with unproductivity and its potentials, while offering an explanation of the profound significance of idle practices for literary and cultural production. While this fascination with unproductivity memorably defined literary characters from Rip Van Winkle to Bartleby to George Hurstwood, it also reverberated deeply through the entire culture, both as a seductive ideal and as a potentially corrosive threat to upright, industrious American men. Drawing on an impressive array of archival material and multifaceted literary and cultural sources, Idle Threats connects the question of unproductivity to other discourses concerning manhood, the value of art, the allure of the frontier, the usefulness of knowledge,the meaning of individuality, and the experience of time, space, and history. Andrew Lyndon Knighton offers a new way of thinking about the largely unacknowledged “productivity of the unproductive,” revealing the incalculable and sometimes surprising ways in which American modernity transformed the relationship between subjects and that which is most intimate to them: their own activity.
Idle Threats and Travelogues
Author: Vincent Bass
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1304192628
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 146
Book Description
Poems that describe the angst of growing up in the 1970s, particularly poor and most particularly in the South Bronx.
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1304192628
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 146
Book Description
Poems that describe the angst of growing up in the 1970s, particularly poor and most particularly in the South Bronx.
Idle Threats
Author: Alan Parkinson
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1326185853
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 218
Book Description
Liam hates his job working for Phonetix Mobile. Fighting for every second and battling with every customer, he is close to the edge. Bumper's business is going under. His debts are rising, his drinking is getting worse and his wife has had enough. Jodie is unemployed and is desperate for work to give her son the life he deserves. Her mobile phone on the other hand, appears to have no intention of working. They are all brought together by an armed siege that could change their lives forever. The long awaited follow up to Leg It, Alan Parkinson's debut novel. Idle Threats is a fast paced tale of guns, bombs, gangsters and sombreros.
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1326185853
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 218
Book Description
Liam hates his job working for Phonetix Mobile. Fighting for every second and battling with every customer, he is close to the edge. Bumper's business is going under. His debts are rising, his drinking is getting worse and his wife has had enough. Jodie is unemployed and is desperate for work to give her son the life he deserves. Her mobile phone on the other hand, appears to have no intention of working. They are all brought together by an armed siege that could change their lives forever. The long awaited follow up to Leg It, Alan Parkinson's debut novel. Idle Threats is a fast paced tale of guns, bombs, gangsters and sombreros.
Idle Threats
Author: Andrew Lyndon Knighton
Publisher: NYU Press
ISBN: 0814749445
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
The 19th century witnessed an explosion of writing about unproductivity, with the exploits of various idlers, loafers, and “gentlemen of refinement” capturing the imagination o fa country that was deeply ambivalent about its work ethic. Idle Threats documents this American obsession with unproductivity and its potentials, while offering an explanation of the profound significance of idle practices for literary and cultural production. While this fascination with unproductivity memorably defined literary characters from Rip Van Winkle to Bartleby to George Hurstwood, it also reverberated deeply through the entire culture, both as a seductive ideal and as a potentially corrosive threat to upright, industrious American men. Drawing on an impressive array of archival material and multifaceted literary and cultural sources, Idle Threats connects the question of unproductivity to other discourses concerning manhood, the value of art, the allure of the frontier, the usefulness of knowledge,the meaning of individuality, and the experience of time, space, and history. Andrew Lyndon Knighton offers a new way of thinking about the largely unacknowledged “productivity of the unproductive,” revealing the incalculable and sometimes surprising ways in which American modernity transformed the relationship between subjects and that which is most intimate to them: their own activity.
Publisher: NYU Press
ISBN: 0814749445
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
The 19th century witnessed an explosion of writing about unproductivity, with the exploits of various idlers, loafers, and “gentlemen of refinement” capturing the imagination o fa country that was deeply ambivalent about its work ethic. Idle Threats documents this American obsession with unproductivity and its potentials, while offering an explanation of the profound significance of idle practices for literary and cultural production. While this fascination with unproductivity memorably defined literary characters from Rip Van Winkle to Bartleby to George Hurstwood, it also reverberated deeply through the entire culture, both as a seductive ideal and as a potentially corrosive threat to upright, industrious American men. Drawing on an impressive array of archival material and multifaceted literary and cultural sources, Idle Threats connects the question of unproductivity to other discourses concerning manhood, the value of art, the allure of the frontier, the usefulness of knowledge,the meaning of individuality, and the experience of time, space, and history. Andrew Lyndon Knighton offers a new way of thinking about the largely unacknowledged “productivity of the unproductive,” revealing the incalculable and sometimes surprising ways in which American modernity transformed the relationship between subjects and that which is most intimate to them: their own activity.
Idle Threats
Author: Alan Parkinson
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781999740252
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781999740252
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
Idle Threats
Author: Idris Goodwin
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Creative writing
Languages : en
Pages : 138
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Creative writing
Languages : en
Pages : 138
Book Description
Author:
Publisher: Shaman Sounds
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 57
Book Description
Publisher: Shaman Sounds
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 57
Book Description
California. Supreme Court. Records and Briefs
Author: California (State).
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 74
Book Description
Court of Appeal Case(s): A049758 Number of Exhibits: 1
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 74
Book Description
Court of Appeal Case(s): A049758 Number of Exhibits: 1
Cases Decided in the Supreme Court of Michigan ...
Author: Michigan. Supreme Court
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law reports, digests, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 810
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law reports, digests, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 810
Book Description
Michigan Reports
Author: Michigan. Supreme Court
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law reports, digests, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 810
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law reports, digests, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 810
Book Description