“my thoughts are elsewhere” Reading (In) Attention in Beckett’s The Unnamable
This essay examines Samuel Beckett’s novel The Unnamable from the perspective of what N. Katherine Hayles calls “deep attention” and “hyper attention,” by which she respectively refers to the ability of human attention to focus on a single object for a certain amount of time and to shift rapidly bet...
Main Author: | Thomas Thoelen |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Polish Association for the Study of English
2018-12-01
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Series: | Polish Journal of English Studies |
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Online Access: | http://pjes.edu.pl/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/PJES_4-2_3_Thomas-Thoelen.pdf |
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