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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Levy, Eric P., author.

Contributor:

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Time in literature.

Literature--History and criticism--Theory, etc.

Literature.

Literature--Theory, etc.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

278 pages ; 23 cm

Edition:

Paperback edition.

Place of Publication:

London, UK : Bloomsbury Academic, Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2018.

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 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"--Back cover

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 1. The Mimesis of Time in Hamlet

2. Dickens's Pathology of Time in Hard Times

3. Time and Metempsychosis in Ulysses

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

5. The Phenomenology of Temporal Trauma in To the Lighthouse

6. The Beckettian Mimesis of Post-Temporal Time

7. Postlapsarian Will and the Problem of Time in Ian McEwan's Enduring Love

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

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

Notes:

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

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.

ISBN:

1350066907

9781350066908

OCLC:

1005196923

Publisher Number:

99989755312