Time and Literature

ISBN-13: 9781108422758 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 352 str.

Thomas Allen

Opis

Time and Literature features twenty essays on topics from aesthetics and narratology to globalisation and queer temporalities, and showcases how Time Studies, often referred to as 'the temporal turn', cut across and illuminate research in every field of literature, as well as interdisciplinary approaches drawing upon history, philosophy, anthropology, and the natural sciences. Part one, Origins, addresses fundamental issues that can be traced back to the beginnings of literary criticism. Part two, Developments, shows how thinking about Time has been crucial to various interpretive revolutions that have impacted literary theory. Part three, Application, illustrates the centrality of temporal theorising to literary criticism in a variety of contemporary approaches, from ecocriticism and new materialisms to media and archive studies. The first anthology to provide a synthesis of recent scholarship on the temporality of literary language from across different national and historical periods, Time and Literature will appeal to academic researchers and interested laypersons alike.

Recenzje

'… this is a well-edited, thought-provoking and highly diverse collection, which offers much material for the literary scholar but also addresses issues and raises questions which will be of interest to a wider audience.' Irmtraud Huber, KronoScope

Spis treści

Introduction Thomas Allen; Part I. Origins: 1. Time and aesthetics Michael Clune; 2. Reading in time Mark Currie; 3. Time and genre Rebecca Bushnell; 4. Time and theatre Matthew Wagner; 5. Sacred and secular Sue Zemka; 6. Ecologies of time Tobias Menely; Part II. Development: 7. Literature, time, and scientific revolutions Jocelyn Holland; 8. Untimely objects: temporal studies and the new materialism Nick Yablon; 9. Temporalities of writing: time and difference after structuralism Ian Maclachlan; 10. Time and media J. K. Barret; 11. Technology and time: clocks, time machines, and speculation Charles Tung; 12. Historicism Jeffrey Insko; Part III. Application: 13. Time and the literary archive Michelle Sizemore; 14. Time, empire, and nation Edward Larkin; 15. Race, writing, and time Daylanne English; 16. Time and the literature of globalization Adam Barrows; 17. Time and the return to form: reading Nabokov, reading Poe Cindy Weinstein; 18. Narrative and narratology Jesse Matz; 19. Queer temporalities: space-ing time and the subject Michelle Wright; 20. In the spiral of history: gestational temporalities and indigenous women's writings on the knowledge of sexual difference Julia Emberley.