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How soon is now? : medieval texts, amateur readers, and the queerness of time / Carolyn Dinshaw.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Dinshaw, Carolyn.
- Series:
- e-Duke books scholarly collection.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Time in literature.
- Time--History--To 1500.
- Time.
- Literature, Medieval--History and criticism.
- Literature, Medieval.
- Queer theory.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (273 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Durham, N.C. : Duke University Press, 2012.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- In this volume, medievalist Carolyn Dinshaw offers a powerful critique of modernist temporal regimes through a revelatory exploration of queer ways of being in time as well as the potential queerness of time itself.
- 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.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9781283863599
- 1283863596
- 9780822395911
- 0822395916
- OCLC:
- 822890020
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