A Question of Time
Author | : Cindy Weinstein |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2023-02-02 |
ISBN-10 | : 1108437109 |
ISBN-13 | : 9781108437103 |
Rating | : 4/5 (09 Downloads) |
Download or read book A Question of Time written by Cindy Weinstein and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2023-02-02 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.