CALL FOR CHAPTERS Editors: Mariusz Finkielsztein (University of Gdańsk) mariusz.finkielsztein@gmail.com Josefa Ros Velasco (Complutense University of Madrid) josros@ucm.es The Handbook of Boredom in Modern Literature is to be a comprehensive monographic study examining boredom as a central aesthetic, philosophical, psychological, and socio-cultural category in the history of modern literature. Rather than relying purely on abstractContinue reading “The Handbook of Boredom in Modern Literature”
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Do various languages understand boredom in the same way?
The text is based on Finkielsztein, M. (2021). Boredom and Academic Work. London and New York: Routledge, pp. 38-42. What is boredom seems to be pretty obvious in our globalized world but do different languages and cultures actually understand it in the same way? Do the closest equivalents of the Anglo-Saxon ‘boredom’ in other languagesContinue reading “Do various languages understand boredom in the same way?”
MARIUSZ FINKIELSZTEIN, Ph.D. 