The Pursuit of Laziness, 2011, p.17-37
2011
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- Autor(en) / Beteiligte
- Titel
- The Surprises of Laziness: Marivaux
- Ist Teil von
- The Pursuit of Laziness, 2011, p.17-37
- Ort / Verlag
- United States: Princeton University Press
- Erscheinungsjahr
- 2011
- Quelle
- Alma/SFX Local Collection
- Beschreibungen/Notizen
- Laziness is not a trait that is usually associated with Pierre Carlet de Marivaux, prolix playwright and innovative novelist that he was. Nevertheless, in certain autobiographical fragments and a number of his other writings, laziness remains a persistent preoccupation. Despite his rich dramatic output and his success in various comical genres that were popular at the time, Marivaux repeatedly mentions laziness as a private dream. In fact, Marivaux’s laziness is intimately linked to writing, to its constant renegotiation of the future. I would thus like to examine other texts upon which Marivaux leaves a special stamp, a particularly modern quality
- Sprache
- Englisch
- Identifikatoren
- ISBN: 9780691149271, 0691149275DOI: 10.1515/9781400838714.17Titel-ID: cdi_jstor_books_j_ctt7t3jv_5
- Format
- –
- Schlagworte
- Arts, Atmospheric circulation, Atmospheric physics, Atmospheric sciences, Behavioral sciences, Business, Clothing industry, Cognitive psychology, Concept of mind, Consumer goods industries, Economic disciplines, Economics, Emotion, Emotional states, Environmental studies, Fluids, Human behavior, Industrial sectors, Industry, Laziness, Liquids, Literary elements, Literary history, Literary studies, Literature, Manufacturing industries, Matter, Metaphysics, Modern literature, Narrative point of view, Narrators, Philosophy, Philosophy of mind, Physical sciences, Physics, Pleasure, Poverty, Psychology, Social & political philosophy, Socioeconomics, States of matter, Thought, Western philosophy: Enlightenment, Wind