Writing against time [[electronic resource] /] / Michael W. Clune

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910462153603321
• Autore: Clune Michael W
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Stanford, Calif., : Stanford University Press, 2013
• ISBN: 0-8047-8482-5
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (200 p.)
• Disciplina: 809/.93384
• Soggetti: Literature, Modern - History and criticism; Time in literature; 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 and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Introduction : writing against time -- Imaginary music -- The addictive image -- Big Brother stops time -- The cultured image -- Conclusion : from representation to creation.
• Sommario/riassunto: For centuries, a central goal of art has been to make us see the world with new eyes. Thinkers from Edmund Burke to Elaine Scarry have understood this effort as the attempt to create new forms. But as anyone who has ever worn out a song by repeated listening knows, artistic form is hardly immune to sensation-killing habit. Some of our most ambitious writers-Keats, Proust, Nabokov, Ashbery-have been obsessed by this problem. Attempting to create an image that never gets old, they experiment with virtual, ideal forms. Poems and novels become workshops, as fragments of the real world are scr