A question of time : American literature from colonial encounter to contemporary fiction
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A question of time : American literature from colonial encounter to contemporary fiction
Cambridge University Press, 2019
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 325-346) and index
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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.
Table of Contents
- 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. Andre, 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.
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