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Timescapes of waiting : spaces of stasis, delay and deferral / edited by Christoph Singer, Robert Wirth and Olaf Berwald.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Spatial practices ; 31.
- Spatial Practices ; volume 31
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Waiting (Philosophy).
- Time pressure--Philosophy.
- Time pressure.
- Philosophy.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 238 pages : illustrations (mostly color) ; 25 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Leiden ; Boston : Brill Rodopi, [2019]
- Summary:
- "Waiting belongs to the greatly overlooked practices of everyday life, and among the many fields enforcing waiting times, transportation certainly accounts for a most prominent generator"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- 1 Waiting in the Antechamber p. 17 / Helmut Puff
- 2 Waiting for Railways (1830-1914) p. 35 / Robin Kellermann
- 3 Waiting for the Man: Deferring and Spatialising Legal and Narrative Delay p. 58 / Richard Hardack
- 4 Dickens, Reade and Galsworthy on Waiting in Solitary Confinement p. 79 / Cornelia Wächter
- 5 The Camp as Extra-Temporal Space in E.C. Osondu's "Waiting" and Dinaw Mengestu's "An Honest Exit" p. 94 / Christoph Singer
- 6 "The Waiting Must End": Waiting for Im/Possible Events in Dave Eggers's A Hologram for the King p. 108 / Kerstin Howaldt
- 7 Absurd Waiting in Samuel Beckett and Zakes Mda: Wartestellen and Revolutionary Waiting p. 125 / Amanda Lagji
- 8 Waiting as Resistance: Confined Spaces in Broch and Weiss p. 140 / Olaf Berwald
- 9 Scotland: A Nation-State in Waiting p. 155 / Robert Wirth
- 10 How Long Will Handala Wait? A Ten-Year-Old Barefoot Refugee Child on Palestinian Walls p. 176 / Margaret Olin
- 11 When Boredom Meets Fear: Waiting in Philip Larkin's "The Building" p. 198 / Elise Brault-Dreux
- 12 Waiting in Sickrooms and Victorian Houses: Virginia Woolf's "On Being Ill" p. 214 / Katrin Röder.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Format:
- e-book version
- ISBN:
- 9789004406957
- 9004406956
- OCLC:
- 1119977790
- Publisher Number:
- 9789004406957
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