Detaining Time

A masterful work of scholarship, with its painstaking attention to detail and its close reading of texts. Unlike many works of literary criticism, Levys book does not rely on vague abstractions or generalities. He guides the reader step by step through each authors reasoning ... to analyze the consciousness of time. I was captivated by this tour de force ... Levys book stands on its own as a work of insightful literary criticism. It constitutes a substantial contribution to literature. It will be of help to students and professors alike. Overall, it is a clear piece of writing, well argued, systematic, and compelling. * Literature & Aesthetics * 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 *

Eric P. Levy is Associate Professor Emeritus at The University of British Columbia, Canada. He is the author of Beckett and the Voice of Species: A Study of the Prose Fiction (1980), Trapped in Thought: A Study of the Beckettian Mentality (2007) and Hamlet and the Rethinking of Man (2008). He has also published 55 articles in various areas of literary criticism, and garnered 25 republications.

Introduction 1. The Mimesis of Time in Hamlet 2. Dickens Pathology of Time in Hard Times 3. Time and Metempsychosis in Ulysses 4. the horror of the moment: Fear and Acceptance of Time in Mrs Dalloway 5. The Phenomenology of Temporal Trauma in To the Lighthouse 6. The Beckettian Mimesis of Time 7. Postlapsarian Will and the Problem of Time in Ian McEwans Enduring Love 8. Further Perspectives: Explication of Gilles Deleuzes Temporal Theory 9. Further Perspectives: Application of Gilles Deleuzes Temporal Theory Epilogue: Time and Agency Notes Bibliography