Showing Results for
- Academic Journals (59)
Search Results
- 59
Academic Journals
- 59
-
From:The Literary Review (Vol. 53, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedDown on the street there's some kid kicking a ball against a wall. Just some kid. Looks poor, in a tatty tracksuit, spotty, fat on cheap crap. Andrew has been watching him. Andrew watches a lot. He has a flat on the...
-
From:The Literary Review (Vol. 61, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedFrom 8:45 to 10:10 AM I saw the blood-stained world Through a scarlet pane of glass With this ad inscribed in white majolica Antagra Bisleri Cures gout and excess uric acid Nocera Umbra (Sorgente Angelica) Sparkling...
-
From:Humanitas (Vol. 12, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedThis article focuses on the relevance of early Christian writings on acedia and tristitia to the primary modern and postmodern maladies of the subject, i.e., chronic ennui, alienation, estrangement, disenchantment,...
-
From:Social Analysis (Vol. 57, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedAbstract: Setting out from fieldwork experiences in the ritual of the Brazilian Candomble, this article aims to understand temporality in different ways. The significance of 'unfocused presence' in the field is...
-
From:Columbia Journalism Review (Vol. 30, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedJournalists are covering boredom in ridiculous detail of late. This trend is exemplified by a deluge of articles on ennui and 'most-boring' contests as well as ubiquitous profiles of allegedly interesting celebrities...
-
From:Nature (Vol. 529, Issue 7585) Peer-ReviewedImplicated in everything from traumatic brain injury to learning ability, boredom has become extremely interesting to scientists. Author(s): Maggie Koerth-Baker 1 Author Affiliations: (1) Maggie Koerth-Baker is a...
-
From:English Literature in Transition 1880-1920 (Vol. 49, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedIN HER three most critically acclaimed novels, The Three Sisters (1914), Mary Olivier: A Life (1919), and The Life and Death of Harriett Frean (1922), May Sinclair focuses on the experience of boredom in women's lives...
-
From:International Journal of Computer Games Technology (Vol. 2018) Peer-ReviewedFacial analysis is a promising approach to detect emotions of players unobtrusively; however approaches are commonly evaluated in contexts not related to games or facial cues are derived from models not designed for...
-
From:Studies in the Novel (Vol. 45, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedBored of Beckett At the least, it is fair to say that the work of Samuel Beckett resists the easy periodization schemes of twentieth-century literary history. Situated both historically and stylistically between the...
-
From:New England Review (Vol. 35, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedThis morning apologies were falling from the trees and the apples were being ignored. There's a chapter in our lives where I tried to shred pages, where I tried to rewrite the tale. Let's call that chapter, The...
-
From:Chicago Review (Vol. 58, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedI opened the phone directory any old way, shut my eyes, and let my finger fall: a name, an address, a phone number. Some nondescript guy always dragging around a sample case. Despite the routine schedule and the same...
-
From:Studies in the Novel (Vol. 44, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedAs the reviews poured in for David Foster Wallace's posthumous and unfinished The Pale King, it became evident that most reviewers took an almost perverse glee in declaring the book was "about" boredom. Michiko...
-
From:Projections: The Journal for Movies and Mind (Vol. 6, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedHow should a film's appearing dated affect critical evaluation of it? This article distinguishes enjoyment of a film from evaluation and describes how films undergo positive, negative, and comic dating. The affective...
-
From:Public InterestPeer-ReviewedTHERE is a malaise spreading among America's college and university students, one that extends into the uppermost reaches of their hearts and minds, robbing them of delights at the moment they seem poised to enjoy them....
-
From:Studies in the Novel (Vol. 28, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedThe long spells of boredom in 'The Picture of Dorian Gray' serve to reinforce the theme of ennui it describes. Oscar Wilde's dialogue speaks of the tediousness experienced by the characters. Desire in the novel can be...
-
From:Adolescence (Vol. 44, Issue 176) Peer-ReviewedThis study explored the effects of parental monitoring, leisure boredom, and leisure activity on Internet addiction. The sample was 1,289 adolescents from eleven senior high schools in Taiwan. Participants were asked...
-
From:Nature (Vol. 565, Issue 7737) Peer-ReviewedAuthor(s): Martin H. Fischer, Samuel Shaki Author Affiliations: Boring talks -- recipe for a robust test Experimental psychologists might point to two methodological flaws in Robert Ewers' (admittedly,...
-
From:PLoS ONE (Vol. 15, Issue 11) Peer-ReviewedExisting research shows that high achievement boredom is correlated with a range of undesirable behavioral and personality variables and that the main antecedents of boredom are being over- or under-challenged. However,...
-
From:School Library Journal (Vol. 51, Issue 1)BEGKER, Helaine. Boredom Blasters: Brain Bogglers, Awesome Activities, Cool Comics, Tasty Treats, and More.... illus. by Claudia Davila. 160p. diags. CIP. Maple Tree, dist. by PGW. 2004. Tr $21.95. ISBN 1-897066-02-3;...
-
From:Criticism (Vol. 39, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedBy Patricia Meyer Spacks. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1995. Pp. xiii + 290. $24.95 cloth. $18.95 paper. We are always and irrevocably, it seems, in the era of the causal claim; the allure of the...