How soon is now? : medieval texts, amateur readers, and the queerness of time / Carolyn Dinshaw.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dinshaw, Carolyn.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Time in literature.

Time--History--To 1500.

Time.

History.

Literature, Medieval--History and criticism.

Literature, Medieval.

Queer theory.

Physical Description:

xix, 251 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Durham, NC : Duke University Press, 2012.

Summary:

How Sonn Is Now? performs a powerful critique of modernist temporal regimes through its revelatory exploration of queer ways of being in time as well as of the potential queerness of time itself. Carolyn Dinshaw focuses on medieval tales of asynchrony and on engagements with these medieval temporal worlds by amateur readers centuries later. In doing so, she illuminates forms of desirous, embodied being that are out of sync with ordinarily linear measurements of everyday life, that involve multiple temporalities, that precipitate out of time altogether. Dinshaw claims the possibility of a fuller, denser, more crowded now that theorists tell us is extant but that often eludes our temporal grasp. Book jacket.

Contents:

Asynchrony stories : monks, kings, sleepers and other time travelers

Temporally oriented : the book of John Mandeville, British India, philology and the postcolonial medievalist

In the now : Margery Kempe, Hope Emily Allen and me

Out of sync in the Catskills : Rip van Winkle, Geoffrey Crayon, James I, and other ghosts

The lay of the land : amateur medievalism and queer love in A Canterbury Tale.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780822353539

0822353539

9780822353676

0822353679

OCLC:

784124893