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Detaining time : temporal resistance in literature from Shakespeare to McEwan / Eric P. Levy.

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Detaining time : temporal resistance in literature from Shakespeare to McEwan / Eric P. Levy.

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Detaining time : temporal resistance in literature from Shakespeare to McEwan / Eric P. Levy.

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Detaining time : temporal resistance in literature from Shakespeare to McEwan / Eric P. Levy.

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Publisher

London : Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2016.

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G 2017/2717

Record Identifier

74VKVaQeZJbg

MMS ID

991024104418002626

Language

English

Physical Description

Physical content

278 pages ; 25 cm

Content type

text

Media type

unmediated

Carrier type

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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Publisher

London : Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2016.

Date Published

2016.

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Scope and Contents

Summary

"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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Full title

Detaining time : temporal resistance in literature from Shakespeare to McEwan / Eric P. Levy.

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General note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-266) and index.

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Date Copyright

©2016

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Call Numbers

G 2017/2717

Record Identifier

74VKVaQeZJbg

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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKVaQeZJbg

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ISBN

9781474292047

DDC

809.93384

MMS ID

991024104418002626

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