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Record Nr.

UNINA9910452513503321

Titolo

Time and the literary / / edited by Karen Newman, Jay Clayton, Marianne Hirsch

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Routledge, , 2002

ISBN

0-415-93961-5

1-315-02391-1

1-136-71553-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (268 p.)

Collana

Essays from the English Institute

Altri autori (Persone)

ClaytonJay <1951->

HirschMarianne

NewmanKaren <1949->

Disciplina

809/.93384

Soggetti

Literature, Modern - History and criticism

Time in literature

Criticism

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Cover ; Half-title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Re-Reading the Present; Part I; 1. Undoing; 2. Genome Time; 3. The Future Literary: Literature and the Culture of Information; 4. Econstructing Sisterhood; Part II; 5. Rereading ""Literary History and Literary Modernity"": Paul De Man's Ambivalence; 6. Literary History and Literary Modernity; 7. Doing Time: Re-Reading Paul De Man's ""Literary History and Literary Modernity""; Part III; 8. Re-Reading the Apocalypse: Millennial Politics in 19th-and 11th-Century France  ; 9. Group Time: Catastrophe, Survival, Periodicity

10. Historifying Marginal PracticesContributors

Sommario/riassunto

Time and the literary: the immediacy of information technology has supposedly annihilated both. Email, cell phones, satellite broadcasting seem to have ended the long-standing tradition of encoding our experience of time through writing. Paul de Man's seminal essay ""Literary History and Literary Modernity"" and newly commissioned



essays on everything from the human genome to grammatical tenses argue, however that the literary constantly reconstructs our understanding of time. From eleventh-century France or a science-fiction future, <EM>Time</EM> <EM>and the Literary</EM> shows how these two