Detaining time : temporal resistance in literature from Shakespeare to McEwan / Eric P. Levy.
Detaining time : temporal resistance in literature from Shakespeare to McEwan / Eric P. Levy.
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London : Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2016.
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G 2017/2717
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English
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278 pages ; 25 cm
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text
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unmediated
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volume
Contents
1 The mimesis of time in Hamlet -- 2 Dickens's 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 post-temp...
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London : Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2016.
Date Published
2016.
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"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...
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Detaining time : temporal resistance in literature from Shakespeare to McEwan / Eric P. Levy.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-266) and index.
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G 2017/2717
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74VKVaQeZJbg
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ISBN
9781474292047
DDC
809.93384
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991024104418002626