Boredom

  • Boredom: The Literary History of a State of Mind
    By Patricia Meyer Spacks, PH D, Edgar Shannon Professor and Chair Department of English Patricia Meyer Spacks

    Ed . Robert W. Chapman . Oxford : Clarendon , [ 1927 ] . The Idler and The Adventurer . ... Reidar Thomte in collaboration with Albert B. Anderson . Princeton : Princeton UP , 1980 . Either / Or . Trans . David F. Swenson and Lillian ...

  • Boredom: A Lively History
    By Peter Toohey

    ... 'if you resolve to give up smoking, drinking and loving you don't actually live longer, it just seems longer'. As Michael Raposa suggests in Boredom and the Religious Imagination, 'for the bored person, time seems to stand still'.

  • Boredom: How To Overcome Feeling Bored Discover Over 100 Proven Ways To Beat Apathy
    By Anthea Peries

    Get back your energy, excitement, liveliness to enjoy the pleasures in life. Makes a great gift for someone special too. FIND OUT HOW TO OVERCOME BOREDOM - GET THIS BOOK NOW!

  • Boredom: The Literary History of a State of Mind
    By Patricia Meyer Spacks

    From the gendering of boredom (how women's lives came to embody both the threat of boredom and its overthrow) to canon issues (how "boring" becomes "interesting" with a sympathetic reader), the implications of the subject steadily enlarge.

  • Boredom
    By Alberto Moravia

    The novels that the great Italian writer Alberto Moravia wrote in the years following the World War II represent an extraordinary survey of the range of human behavior in a fragmented modern society.

  • Boredom: A Lively History
    By Peter Toohey

    In the first book to argue for the benefits of boredom, Peter Toohey dispels the myth that it's simply a childish emotion or an existential malaise like Jean-Paul Sartre's nausea.