Habits of Distraction

• Author(s): Michael Wood,
• Publisher: Liverpool University Press
• Pages: 192
• ISBN_10: 1782845534
  ISBN_13: 9781782845539
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Literary Criticism / Subjects & Themes / General , Literary Criticism / Semiotics & Theory , Social Science / Sociology / Social Theory , Social Science / Anthropology / Cultural & Social , Social Science / Sociology / General ,

Description:... Starting with Walter Benjamin's idea of 'reception in a state of distraction' and looking briefly at some antecedents for Benjamin's thinking, this book develops a working model of distraction in interpretation. Examples are taken from film (Benjamin's test case), literature, music, painting and photography; the book closes with a 'distracted' reading of a classic work of concentration: Milton's Paradise Lost.