Question of Time (eBook, ePUB)

American Literature from Colonial Encounter to Contemporary Fiction
Redaktion: Weinstein, Cindy

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book brings together leading critics in American literature to address the representation of time throughout a wide range of genres, methodologies, and chronological periods. American literature, from its beginnings to the present, provides a particularly rich set of texts to examine in this regard, with its interest in history, modernity and progress. Each essay considers how time embeds itself in a variety of textual representations, including Native American rituals, Shaker dances, novels, poetry, and magazines in order to provide readers with a capacious view of time's constitutive role in American literature. The essays are organized into four sections - Materializing Time, Performing Time, Timing Time, and Theorizing Time. Each section reflects a particular approach to the question of time, but taken as a whole the volume makes visible unexpected temporal patterns that cut across time period and genre.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Dezember 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781108530057
• Artikelnr.: 54536678

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Cindy Weinstein; Part I. Materializing Time: 1. The sense of
impending: Nathaniel Beverley Tucker's, The Partisan Leader: A Tale of the
Future Christopher Looby; 2. Mary Chestnut's epic time Julia Stern; 3. 'I
read my mission as 'twere a book': temporality and form in The
Anglo-African Magazine Derrick Spires; Part II. Performing Time: 4. 'At the
time of that look': the problems with simultaneity in the testimony at
Salem Nan Goodman; 5. Bad timing: indigenous reception and American
literary style Angela Calcaterra; 6. André, theatricality, and the time of
revolution Jonathan Elmer; 7. Shakers, not movers: the physiopolitics of
Shaker dance Elizabeth Freeman; Part III. Timing Time: 8. And per se and:
time and tempo in 'The Masque of the Red Death' Geoffrey Sanborn; 9. The
late forever: queer temporality in the poems of Frank Bidart, D. A. Powell
and Richard Siken Marta Figlerowicz; 10. DeLillo, slowing down Mark Goble;
11. Rhyming times: the architecture of progressive time and simultaneity in
Richard McGuire's Here Stefanie Sobelle; Part IV. Theorizing Time: 12. The
specious present and the Jamesian sentence Jesse Matz; 13. Mediterraneans
of the Americas: going anti-imperial, comparatively Susan Gillman; 14.
Faulkner's Light in August and new theories of novelistic time Dorothy J.
Hale; 15. 'End of the End of the Line': the broken temporality of David
Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest Stefano Ercolino; Afterword Robert S.
Levine; Index.