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Bored to Death: A Critical Exploration into Boredom during the Covid-19 Pandemic in the Select Poems of Steeve Wheeler and Jane Marla Robbins

Data publikacji: 15.11.2023

Zoon Politikon, 2023, 14/2023, s. 208 - 223

https://doi.org/10.4467/2543408XZOP.23.008.18662

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Anupama K.T.
University College, Trivandrum, Kerala, India
https://orcid.org/0009-0004-7166-4928 Orcid
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Chitra Thrivikraman Nair
Government KNM Arts & Science College, Kanjiramkulam, Trivandrum, Kerala, India
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8816-2690 Orcid
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Tytuły

Bored to Death: A Critical Exploration into Boredom during the Covid-19 Pandemic in the Select Poems of Steeve Wheeler and Jane Marla Robbins

Abstrakt

More than a health crisis, the Covid-19 pandemic turned out to be a major disruptive factor influencing the psychological well-being of the survivors. The Covid lockdown, thus provided the recent global brush with boredom, with boredom assuming different faces and persona. The stay-at-home orders had not accounted for this complimentary disease of a phenomenon initially. The confinement for uncertain periods of time proved to be mentally extolling as much as it was anything else. This essay tries to look into the psychological and physiological manifestations of Covid induced boredom as reflected in the select poems of Steeve Wheeler’s Ellipsis and Jane Marla Robbins’ Poems of Covid-19: Stuck in Lockdown: The First Three Months.

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Informacje: Zoon Politikon, 2023, s. 208 - 223

Typ artykułu: Oryginalny artykuł naukowy

Tytuły:

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Bored to Death: A Critical Exploration into Boredom during the Covid-19 Pandemic in the Select Poems of Steeve Wheeler and Jane Marla Robbins

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Bored to Death: A Critical Exploration into Boredom during the Covid-19 Pandemic in the Select Poems of Steeve Wheeler and Jane Marla Robbins

Autorzy

https://orcid.org/0009-0004-7166-4928

Anupama K.T.
University College, Trivandrum, Kerala, India
https://orcid.org/0009-0004-7166-4928 Orcid
Wszystkie publikacje autora →

University College, Trivandrum, Kerala, India

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8816-2690

Chitra Thrivikraman Nair
Government KNM Arts & Science College, Kanjiramkulam, Trivandrum, Kerala, India
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8816-2690 Orcid
Wszystkie publikacje autora →

Government KNM Arts & Science College, Kanjiramkulam, Trivandrum, Kerala, India

Publikacja: 15.11.2023

Otrzymano: 30.06.2023

Zaakceptowano: 07.11.2023

Status artykułu: Otwarte __T_UNLOCK

Licencja: CC BY-SA  ikona licencji

Udział procentowy autorów:

Anupama K.T. (Autor) - 50%
Chitra Thrivikraman Nair (Autor) - 50%

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Liczba wyświetleń: 326

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K.T., A., Nair, C. (2023). Bored to Death: A Critical Exploration into Boredom during the Covid-19 Pandemic in the Select Poems of Steeve Wheeler and Jane Marla Robbins. Zoon Politikon, 2023, 208-223. doi: https://doi.org/10.4467/2543408XZOP.23.008.18662