Temporalities, texts, ideologies : ancient and early-modern perspectives / [edited by] Bobby Xinyue.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Xinyue, Bobby, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Time in literature.

Literature--History and criticism.

Literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (256 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Distribution:

[London, England] : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2024

Place of Publication:

London [England] : Bloomsbury Academic, 2022.

Summary:

"Texts, Temporalities, Ideologies provides a new analysis of the significance of time in Classical and early modern literature, demonstrating that literary temporality continually intervenes in questions of ontology, hierarchy, and politics. Examining a diverse range of texts from Homeric epic to eighteenth-century poems on the Last Judgement, this collection of essays contends that temporality in literature is not merely a matter of storytelling, but sits at the heart of how authors from antiquity through to the early modern period understood and negotiated the structures that shaped their lives and may shape lives to come. Approaching the topic through four themes, this volume highlights the ways in which time is construed as relational, contestable, and politically inflected. It shows that variations in temporalities enable texts to critique the interactions or tensions between tradition and change, agency and determinism, social system and individual experience. This book not only expands on how temporality works in well-studied genres such as lyric, but also sheds new light on the conception, arrangement, and uses of time in genres that have received less attention, such as letters, biographies, and early modern texts that rework or converse with Classical paradigms. The result is a refreshing approach to literary figurations of time that responds to the recent 'temporal turn' in the humanities, engages with current critical trends (such as ontological analysis and ecological criticism), and opens up an exciting new direction for future research on the connection between time, text, and context."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction / Bobby Xinyue

Part I. The Presence of Time.

Chapter 1 Ancient Temporality: Homer and the Long Shadows of Time in Greco-Roman Antiquity Ahuvia Khane (Trinity College Dublin, UK)

Chapter 2 Pindar and the Nature of Contemplation David Fearn (University of Warwick, UK)

Chapter 3 Time, Historical Ontology, and Interpretation: The Case of Lucretius Duncan Kennedy (University of Bristol, UK) Part II. Human Time, Divine Time

Chapter 4 Divine and Human Time in the Homeric Hymn to Apollo Anke Walter (University of Newcastle, UK)

Chapter 5 More Than a Lifetime: Temporal Patterns in Roman Biography (Nepos, Tacitus, Suetonius) Martin Stòckinger (University of Cologne, Germany)

Chapter 6 Engendering the Christian Age: Ovid's Fasti and the Annunciation in Renaissance Poetic Calendars Bobby Xinyue (University of Warwick, UK) Part III. Embodying Time

Chapter 7 The Apotheosis of Time: Tradition and Anachronism in Pherekydes' Heptamychos Susannah Ashton (Trinity College Dublin, UK)

Chapter 8 Rivers and the Disruption of Time in Ovid's Metamorphoses Rebecca Batty (University of Nottingham, UK)

Chapter 9 Refounders and the Politics of Time in Renaissance Rome Caroline Stark (Howard University, UK) Part IV. Running Out of Time

Chapter 10 The Day of Reckoning: Seneca's Epistolary Time Catharine Edwards (Birkbeck, University of London, UK)

Chapter 11 Short Long / Long Short: Brevity, Liberty and Epigrammatic Temporality Tom Geue (University of St Andrews, UK)

Chapter 12 The End of Time: Early Modern Poems on the Last Judgement Philip Hardie (University of Cambridge, UK)

Bibliography

Index.

ISBN:

9781350257252

1350257257

9781350257238

1350257230

9781350257245

1350257249

OCLC:

1293234233