Detaining Time: Temporal Resistance in Literature from Shakespeare to McEwan - Hardcover

Levy, Eric P.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1474292046 ISBN 13: 9781474292047

Verlag: Bloomsbury 3PL, 2016

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An ambitious book - and along the way are insights worth reflecting on and debating. * University of Toronto Quarterly * There is much ... to commend in this book, and the readings of individual texts would be of interest to anyone studying or writing on them specifically, or on the literary application of theories of time. * Forum for Modern Language Studies *

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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 thorough yet engaging explication and application of prominent 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.

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• Verlag: Bloomsbury 3PL
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2016
• ISBN 10: 1474292046
• ISBN 13: 9781474292047
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 290