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Dead time : temporal disorders in the wake of modernity (Baudelaire and Flaubert) / Elissa Marder.
LIBRA PQ2191.F63 M27 2001
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Marder, Elissa.
- Series:
- Cultural memory in the present
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Baudelaire, Charles, 1821-1867. Fleurs du mal.
- Baudelaire, Charles.
- Flaubert, Gustave, 1821-1880. Madame Bovary.
- Flaubert, Gustave.
- Time in literature.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 222 pages ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2001.
- Summary:
- This book explores how modernity gives rise to temporal disorders when time cannot be assimilated and integrated into the realm of lived experience. It turns to Baudelaire and Flaubert in order to derive insights into the many temporal disorders (such as trauma, addiction, and fetishism) that pervade contemporary culture.
- Contents:
- Introduction: "Our Contemporaries," Baudelaire and Flaubert 1
- 1 Women Tell Time: Traumatic and Addictive Temporality in Les Fleurs du mal 14
- 2 Flat Death: Snapshots of History 68
- 3 The Erasing of Modern Life 88
- 4 Trauma, Addiction, and Temporal Bulimia in Madame Bovary 131
- 5 Madame Bovary's Perversion of Death 150.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0804740712
- 0804740720
- OCLC:
- 47140488
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