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The Habits of Distraction (Critical Inventions)

Michael Wood

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Description:The thoughts traced in this book may seem a little complicated but the project itself is simple. It is to see what sort of weight and extension Walter Benjamin's phrase 'reception in distraction' can be seen to bear in changing contexts. The book first looks at the theoretical contours of the phrase, and several of its relatives, in the work of Benjamin and Barthes, with a glance at a prehistory in Proust and others. It then closely considers some different objects of reception and different forms of distraction: in jazz, classical music, poetry, painting, art house film and popular film. Particular instances are: an album by Miles Davis and his group, a song by Richard Strauss, a poem by W. B. Yeats, a painting by Max Ernst, a film by LuÃ?Â?Ã?Â?Ã?Â?Ã?Âs BuÃ?Â?Ã?Â?Ã?Â?Ã?Â±uel, a film by Clint Eastwood. The hope is that distraction in interpretation - listening, reading, viewing, watching - will come to seem less vague and regrettable, and may serve as a corrective to narrow, expert and over-explicit modes of response. But this hope itself depends on readers who will take what is shown here as an invitation to choose their own examples and explore some of these possibilities for themselves.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Habits of Distraction (Critical Inventions). To get started finding The Habits of Distraction (Critical Inventions), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: The thoughts traced in this book may seem a little complicated but the project itself is simple. It is to see what sort of weight and extension Walter Benjamin's phrase 'reception in distraction' can be seen to bear in changing contexts. The book first looks at the theoretical contours of the phrase, and several of its relatives, in the work of Benjamin and Barthes, with a glance at a prehistory in Proust and others. It then closely considers some different objects of reception and different forms of distraction: in jazz, classical music, poetry, painting, art house film and popular film. Particular instances are: an album by Miles Davis and his group, a song by Richard Strauss, a poem by W. B. Yeats, a painting by Max Ernst, a film by LuÃ?Â?Ã?Â?Ã?Â?Ã?Âs BuÃ?Â?Ã?Â?Ã?Â?Ã?Â±uel, a film by Clint Eastwood. The hope is that distraction in interpretation - listening, reading, viewing, watching - will come to seem less vague and regrettable, and may serve as a corrective to narrow, expert and over-explicit modes of response. But this hope itself depends on readers who will take what is shown here as an invitation to choose their own examples and explore some of these possibilities for themselves.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Habits of Distraction (Critical Inventions). To get started finding The Habits of Distraction (Critical Inventions), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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