Detaining time : temporal resistance in literature from Shakespeare to McEwan / Eric P. Levy.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Levy, Eric P., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Time in literature.

Physical Description:

278 pages ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

London : Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2016.

Summary:

Detaining Time is the first book to investigate the representation of time in literature in terms of the project to reconceptualize time, so that its movement no longer threatens security. Focusing on the nature, consequences, and resolution of resistance to temporal passage, Eric P. Levy offers detailed and probing close readings, enriched by thorough yet engaging explication and application of prominent philosophical theories of time. Philosophy is here employed not as a rigid model to which literature is forced to conform, but instead as a lens through which elements crucial to the literary texts can be isolated and clarified, even as they concern ideas different from those expounded in philosophy. The literary texts treated include Hamlet, Hard Times, Ulysses, Mrs Dalloway, To the Lighthouse, a wide range of Beckettian works, and Enduring Love - texts distinguished by their challenging, relentless, original, and dramatic depiction of the struggle with temporality. The philosophies of time covered include those of Aristotle, Kant, Bergson, John McTaggart, C.D. Broad, Edmund Husserl and Gilles Deleuze. Book jacket.

Contents:

1 The Mimesis of Time in Hamlet 27

2 Dickens's Pathology of Time in Hard Times 51

3 Time and Metempsychosis in Ulysses 67

4 "the horror of the moment": Fear and Acceptance of Time in Mrs. Dalloway 85

5 The Phenomenology of Temporal Trauma in To the Lighthouse 111

6 The Beckettian Mimesis of Post-Temporal Time 135

7 Postlapsarian Will and the Problem of Time in Ian McEwans Enduring Love 153

8 Further Perspectives: Explication of Gilles Deleuze's Temporal Theory 177

9 Further Perspectives: Application of Gilles Deleuze's Temporal Theory 197.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-266) and index.

ISBN:

1474292046

9781474292047

OCLC:

953599188