Time, Literature, and Cartography After the Spatial Turn

The Chronometric Imaginary

AvAdam Barrows

Inbunden, Engelska, 2016

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Time, Literature and Cartography after the Spatial Turn argues that the spatial turn in literary studies has the unexplored potential to reinvigorate the ways in which we understand time in literature. Drawing on new readings of time in a range of literary narratives, including Vladimir Nabokov’s Ada and James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake, Adam Barrows explores literature’s ability to cartographically represent the dense and tangled rhythmic processes that constitute lived spaces. Applying the insights of ecological resilience studies, as well as Henri Lefebvre’s late work on rhythm to literary representations of time, this book offers a sustained examination of literature’s “chronometric imaginary”: its capacity to map the temporal relationships between the human and the non-human, the local and the global.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2016-06-07
Mått:148 x 210 x 16 mm
Vikt:373 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Geocriticism and Spatial Literary Studies
Antal sidor:178
Upplaga:16001
Förlag:Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN:9781137571403

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Adam Barrows is Associate Professor in the Department of English and Director of the Institute of Interdisciplinary Studies at Carleton University, Canada. He is the author of The Cosmic Time of Empire and a recipient of the Modern Fiction Studies Margaret Church Memorial Prize.

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“This is a thoroughly remarkable book. … Barrows’s approach clearly demonstrates that geo-criticism, combined with textual analysis that is spatial, is up to the task of making apparent complex spatial and temporal configurations in literary narratives.” (Heike Polster,Kronoscope, Issue 20, 2020)

Innehållsförteckning

Introduction: Time and Literature after the Spatial Turn.- Crossing the Date Line: Global Mapping and Temporal Allochrony.- Modernist Panarchies: Woolf, Joyce, and Rhythm.- Mapping Our Tomorrows: Time in Nabokov’s Ada.- The Road I’m On: Mapping the Time of Fantasy in the Work of Salman Rushdie.- Conclusion: Narrative and Other Technologies of Global Mapping.- Notes.- Bibliography.