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

Levy, Eric P., author.
2016
PN56.T5 L48 2016 (Mapit)
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Title
Detaining time : temporal resistance in literature from Shakespeare to McEwan / Eric P. Levy.
Author
Levy, Eric P., author.
ISBN
9781474292047 (hardcover)
1474292046 (hardcover)
9781474292061 (electronic book)
9781474292054 (epub)
Published
London : Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2016.
Copyright
©2016
Language
English
Description
278 pages ; 25 cm
Call Number
PN56.T5 L48 2016
Dewey Decimal Classification
809/.93384
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 explication and application of prominent philosophical theories of time. Philosophy is here employed not as a rigid model to which literature is forced to conform, but instead as a lens through which elements crucial to the literary texts can be isolated and clarified, even as they concern ideas different from those expounded in philosophy. The literary texts treated include Hamlet, Hard Times, Ulysses, Mrs Dalloway, To the Lighthouse, a wide range of Beckettian works, and Enduring Love - texts distinguished by their challenging, relentless, original, and dramatic depiction of the struggle with temporality. The philosophies of time covered include those of Aristotle, Kant, Bergson, John McTaggart, C.D. Broad, Edmund Husserl and Gilles Deleuze."--Page 4 of cover.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-266) and index.
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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-temporal time
7 Postlapsarian will and the problem of time in Ian McEwan's Enduring love
8 Further perspectives: explication of Gilles Deleuze's temporal theory
9 Further perspectives: application of Gilles Deleuze's temporal theory.

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