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On anachronism / Jeremy Tambling.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Tambling, Jeremy, author.
- Series:
- Manchester Shakespeare collection
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Time in literature.
- Space and time in literature.
- Ontology in literature.
- Other (Philosophy) in literature.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (viii, 184 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Manchester ; New York : Manchester University Press ; New York : Distributed in the U.S. exclusively by Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.
- Language Note:
- In English.
- Summary:
- This book joins together Shakespeare and Proust as the great writers of love to show that love is always anachronistic, and never more so when it is homosexual. Drawing on Nietzsche, Freud, Heidegger, Derrida, Blanchot and Levinas and Deleuze, difficult but essential theorists of the subject of 'being and time' and 'time and the other', it examines why speculation on time has become so crucial within modernity. Through the related term 'anachronism', the book considers how discussion of time always turns into discussion of space, and how this, too, can never be quite defined. It speculates on chance and thinks of ways in which a quality of difference within time-heterogeneity, anachronicity-is essential to think of what is meant by 'the other'. The book examines how contemporary theory considers the future and its relation to the past as that which is inescapable in the form of trauma. It considers what is meant by 'the event', that which is the theme of all post-Nietzschean theory and which breaks in two conceptions of time as chronological.
- Contents:
- Copyright; Contents; Preface; Introduction; 1. Seven types of anachronism: Proust; 2. Fools of time: Michelangelo and Shakespeare; 3. Chronicles of death foretold; 4. Future traces; Last words; Notes; Index.
- Notes:
- Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 28 Apr 2026).
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781847797728
- 1847797725
- 9781781703168
- 1781703167
- 9781847793515
- 1847793517
- OCLC:
- 818847516
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