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Record Nr.

UNINA9910809558103321

Autore

West-Pavlov Russell <1964-, >

Titolo

Temporalities / / Russell West-Pavlov

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Abingdon, Oxon : , : Routledge, , 2013

ISBN

1-136-25993-7

1-136-25994-5

0-203-10687-3

1-283-86190-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (225 p.)

Collana

New critical idiom

Classificazione

LIT000000

Disciplina

809/.93384

Soggetti

Literature - History and criticism - Theory, etc

Time in literature

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

Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Series editor's preface; Introduction; 1 Time-keeping; 2 Philosophies of time; 3 Histories; 4 Language and discourse; 5 Gender and subjectivity; 6 Economics; 7 Postmodern temporalities; 8 Postcolonial temporalities; Conclusion; Glossary; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

"Temporalities presents a concise critical introduction to the treatment of time throughout literature. Time and its passage represent one of the oldest and most complex philosophical subjects in art of all forms, and Russell West-Pavlov explains and interrogates the most important theories of temporality across a range of disciplines. The author explores temporality's relationship with a diverse range of related concepts, including: - historiography - psychology - gender - economics - postmodernism - postcolonialism. Russell West-Pavlov examines time as a crucial part of the critical theories of Newton, Freud, Ricoeur, Benjamin, and explores the treatment of time in a broad range of texts, ranging from the writings of St. Augustine and Sterne's Tristram Shandy, to Woolf's Mrs Dalloway and Stoppard's Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead. This comprehensive and accessible guide establishes temporality as an essential theme within literary and cultural studies today"--