What is the relationship between waiting and time? Is there an ethics of waiting, or even an art of waiting? Do the internet, online shopping and text messaging mean that waiting has come to an end? This book explores such and similar questions in fashion. It presents a philosophy of waiting.

Harold Schweizer is Professor of English and Chair of the English Department at Bucknell University. He teaches courses in modern poetry, literary theory, holocaust studies, representations of suffering, and the comparative humanities. His publications include Suffering and the Remedy of Art (1997), The Bucknell Lectures in Literary Theory (ed. 1989-94), and others. His most recent publications, on the temporality of waiting, have appeared in Soundings, The University of Toronto Quarterly, and The Journal of Modern Literature.

• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Group
• Publisher Imprint: Routledge
• Publication Date: June 6, 2012
• Pages: 168
• ISBN13: 9780415775076
• Item Weight: 180 grams
• Original Price: 275.0 INR
• Edition: 1st
• Binding: Paperback