Writing about Time

Essays on American Literature

Fiction & Literature, Literary Theory & Criticism, American
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Author: ISBN: 9781108530057
Publisher: Cambridge University Press Publication: October 31, 2018
Imprint: Cambridge University Press Language: English
Author:
ISBN: 9781108530057
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication: October 31, 2018
Imprint: Cambridge University Press
Language: English

This book brings together leading critics in American literature to address the representation of time throughout a wide range of genres, methodologies, and chronological periods.  American literature, from its beginnings to the present, provides a particularly rich set of texts to examine in this regard, with its interest in history, modernity and progress. Each essay considers how time embeds itself in a variety of textual representations, including Native American rituals, Shaker dances, novels, poetry, and magazines in order to provide readers with a capacious view of time's constitutive role in American literature.  The essays are organized into four sections -- Materializing Time, Performing Time, Timing Time, and Theorizing Time.  Each section reflects a particular approach to the question of time, but taken as a whole, the volume makes visible unexpected temporal patterns that cut across time period and genre.   

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This book brings together leading critics in American literature to address the representation of time throughout a wide range of genres, methodologies, and chronological periods.  American literature, from its beginnings to the present, provides a particularly rich set of texts to examine in this regard, with its interest in history, modernity and progress. Each essay considers how time embeds itself in a variety of textual representations, including Native American rituals, Shaker dances, novels, poetry, and magazines in order to provide readers with a capacious view of time's constitutive role in American literature.  The essays are organized into four sections -- Materializing Time, Performing Time, Timing Time, and Theorizing Time.  Each section reflects a particular approach to the question of time, but taken as a whole, the volume makes visible unexpected temporal patterns that cut across time period and genre.   

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