Skip to main content Accessibility help
×
  1. Home
  2. Books
  3. Time and Literature
  • Cited by 8
      • Show more authors
      • You may already have access via personal or institutional login
    • Select format
    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      16 March 2018
      29 March 2018
      ISBN:
      9781108381697
      9781108422758
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108381697
      Dimensions:
      (229 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.63kg, 352 Pages
      Dimensions:
      Weight & Pages:
      • Subjects:
      Literature, English Literature: General Interest, Literary Theory
      Series:
      Cambridge Critical Concepts
    You may already have access via personal or institutional login
    • Selected: Digital
    Add to cart View cart Buy from Cambridge.org
    Subjects:
    Literature, English Literature: General Interest, Literary Theory
    Series:
    Cambridge Critical Concepts
    Information

    Book description

    Time and Literature features twenty essays on topics from aesthetics and narratology to globalisation and queer temporalities, and showcases how time studies, often referred to as 'the temporal turn', cut across and illuminate research in every field of literature, as well as interdisciplinary approaches drawing upon history, philosophy, anthropology, and the natural sciences. Part one, Origins, addresses fundamental issues that can be traced back to the beginnings of literary criticism. Part two, Developments, shows how thinking about Time has been crucial to various interpretive revolutions that have impacted literary theory. Part three, Application, illustrates the centrality of temporal theorising to literary criticism in a variety of contemporary approaches, from ecocriticism and new materialisms to media and archive studies. The first anthology to provide a synthesis of recent scholarship on the temporality of literary language from across different national and historical periods, Time and Literature will appeal to academic researchers and interested laypersons alike.

    Reviews

    '… this is a well-edited, thought-provoking and highly diverse collection, which offers much material for the literary scholar but also addresses issues and raises questions which will be of interest to a wider audience.'

    Irmtraud Huber Source: KronoScope

    Refine List

    Actions for selected content:

    Select all | Deselect all
    • View selected items
    • Export citations
    • Download PDF (zip)
    • Save to Kindle
    • Save to Dropbox
    • Save to Google Drive

    Save Search

    You can save your searches here and later view and run them again in "My saved searches".

    Please provide a title, maximum of 40 characters.
    Cancel
    ×

    Contents

    Page 1 of 2

    Contents

    Page 1 of 2

    References

    Further Reading

    Philosophy and Theory of Time

    Adam, Barbara. Timescapes of Modernity: The Environment and Invisible Hazards. London: Routledge, 1998.
    Agacinski, Sylviane. Time Passing: Modernity and Nostalgia. New York: Columbia University Press, 2003.
    Agamben, Giorgio. The Time that Remains: A Commentary on the Letter to the Romans. Trans. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2005.
    Anderson, Benedict. Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism. Revised ed. London: Verso, 2006.
    Apter, Emily. “‘Women's Time’ in Theory.” differences 21.1 (2010): 1–18.
    Aravamudan, Srinivas. “The Return of Anachronism.” MLQ: Modern Language Quarterly 62.4 (2001): 331–53.
    Aristotle. Physics. Trans. Waterfield, Robin. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999.
    Augustine. Confessions. Trans. Chadwick, Henry. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009.
    Bakhtin, M. M. The Dialogic Imagination: Four Essays. Trans. Emerson, Caryl and Holquist, Michael, ed. Holquist, Michael. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1981.
    Barbour, Julian. The End of Time: The Next Revolution in Physics. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999.
    Bhabha, Homi K. The Location of Culture. London: Routledge, 1994.
    Benjamin, Walter. “Theses on the Philosophy of History.” In Illuminations, ed. Arendt, Hannah and trans. Zohn, Harry. New York: Harcourt, 1968: 253–64.
    Bergson, Henri. Matter and Memory. Trans. Paul, Nancy Margaret and Palmer, W. Scott. New York: Macmillan Company, 1913.10.1037/13803-000
    Bergson, Henri. Time and Free Will: An Essay on the Immediate Data of Consciousness. 1889. Trans. Pogson, F. L.. London: George Allen, 1913.
    Birth, Kevin. Objects of Time: How Things Shape Temporality. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.
    Boym, Svetlana. The Future of Nostalgia. New York: Basic Books, 2001.
    Boym, Svetlana. “Nostalgia and its Discontents.” Hedgehog Review 9.2 (Summer 2007): 7–18.
    Brand, Stewart. The Clock of the Long Now: Time and Responsibility. New York: Basic Books, 1999.
    Bultmann, Rudolf. History and Eschatology: The Presence of Eternity. New York: Harper & Row, 1957.
    Burges, Joel, and Elias, Amy J., eds. Time: A Vocabulary of the Present. New York: NYU Press, 2016.
    Callender, Craig, ed. The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Time. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011.
    Currie, Mark. The Unexpected: Narrative Temporality and the Philosophy of Surprise. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2013.
    Derrida, Jacques. Given Time: 1. Counterfeit Money. Trans. Kamuf, Peggy. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1992.
    Doane, Mary Ann. The Emergence of Cinematic Time: Modernity, Contingency, the Archive. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2002.
    Dudziak, Mary L. War Time: An Idea, Its History, Its Consequences. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012.
    Edelman, Lee. No Future: Queer Theory and the Death Drive. Durham: Duke University Press, 2004.
    Elias, Norbert. Time: An Essay. Trans. Jephcott, Edmund. Oxford: Blackwell, 1992.
    Fabian, Johannes. Time and the Other: How Anthropology Makes Its Object. New York: Columbia University Press, 1983.
    Felski, Rita. Doing Time: Feminist Theory and Postmodern Culture. New York: NYU Press, 2000.
    Freeman, Elizabeth. Time Binds: Queer Temporalities, Queer Histories. Durham: Duke University Press, 2010.
    Freeman, Elizabeth, ed. “Queer Temporalities.” Special issue of GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies, 13.2–3 (2007).
    Fritzsche, Peter. Stranded in the Present: Modern Time and the Melancholy of History. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2004.
    Giddens, Anthony. The Consequences of Modernity. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1990.
    Grosz, Elizabeth. The Nick of Time: Politics, Evolution, and the Untimely. Durham: Duke University Press, 2004.
    Grosz, Elizabeth. ed. Becomings: Explorations in Time, Memory, and Futures. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1999.
    Hägglund, Martin. Radical Atheism: Derrida and the Time of Life. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2008.
    Halberstam, Judith [Jack]. In a Queer Time and Place: Transgender Bodies, Subcultural Lives. New York: NYU Press, 2005.
    Hartman, Saidiya. “The Time of Slavery.” South Atlantic Quarterly 101.4 (2002), 757–77.10.1215/00382876-101-4-757
    Hawking, Stephen. A Brief History of Time. New York: Bantam Books, 1996.
    Heise, Ursula. Chronoschisms: Time, Narrative, and Postmodernism. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997.
    Hodge, Joanna. Derrida on Time. London: Routledge, 2007.
    Holland, Jocelyn, and Kittler, Wolf, eds. “Keeping Time.” Special issue, Configurations 23.2 (Spring 2015).
    Husserl, Edmund. The Phenomenology of Internal Time-Consciousness. Trans. Churchill, James S., ed. Heidegger, Martin, Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1964.
    Jameson, Fredric. “The End of Temporality.” Critical Inquiry 29.4 (2003): 695–718.
    Koselleck, Reinhart. Futures Past: On the Semantics of Historical Time. Trans. Tribe, Keith. New York: Columbia University Press, 1985.
    Koselleck, Reinhart.The Practice of Conceptual History: Timing History, Spacing Concepts. Trans. Presner, Todd, Behnke, Kerstin, and Welge, Jobst. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2002.
    Kristeva, Julia. “Women's Time.” Trans. Jardine, Alice and Blake, Harry. In The Kristeva Reader, ed. Toril, Moi. New York: Columbia University Press, 1986: 187–213.
    Latour, Bruno. We Have Never Been Modern. Trans. Porter, Catherine. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1993.
    Maclachlan, Ian. Marking Time: Derrida, Blanchot, Beckett, des Forêts, Klossowski, Laporte. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2012.
    Muñoz, José Esteban. Cruising Utopia: The Then and There of Queer Futurity. New York: NYU Press, 2009.
    Newton, Isaac. The Principia: Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy. 1687. Trans. Cohen, I. Bernard and Whitman, Anne, assisted by Budenz, Julia. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2016.
    Saussure, Ferdinand de. Course in General Linguistics. Trans. Baskin, Wade. London: Peter Owen, 1960.
    Serres, Michel, and Latour, Bruno, Conversations on Science, Culture, and Time. Trans. Lapidus, Roxanne. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1995.
    Taylor, Charles. A Secular Age. Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2007.
    West-Pavlov, Russell. Temporalities. London: Routledge, 2013.
    Wood, David. The Deconstruction of Time. 2nd ed. Evanston, IL; Northwestern University Press, 2001.
    Wright, Michelle M. Physics of Blackness: Beyond the Middle Passage Epistemology. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2015.
    Yablon, Nick. Untimely Ruins: An Archaeology of American Urban Modernity, 1819–1919. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2009.

    Literary Criticism

    Allen, Thomas M. A Republic in Time: Temporality and Social Imagination in Nineteenth-Century America. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2008.
    Aristotle. Poetics. Trans. Heath, Malcolm. New York: Penguin, 1997.
    Auerbach, Erich. Time, History, and Literature: Selected Essays of Erich Auerbach. Trans. Newman, Jane O.. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2013.
    Barret, J. K. Untold Futures: Time and Literary Culture in Renaissance England. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2016.
    Adam, Barrows. The Cosmic Time of Empire: Modern Britain and World Literature. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2011.
    Adam, Barrows. Time, Literature and Cartography after the Spatial Turn: The Chronometric Imaginary. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.
    Beer, Gillian. Darwin's Plots: Evolutionary Narrative in Darwin, George Eliot and Nineteenth-Century Fiction. 2nd ed. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000.
    Brooks, Peter. Reading for the Plot. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1992.
    Bushnell, Rebecca. Tragic Time in Drama, Film, and Videogames: The Future in the Instant. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.
    Cameron, Sharon. Lyric Time: Dickinson and the Limits of Genre. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1979.
    Clune, Michael. Writing against Time. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2013.
    Coviello, Peter. Tomorrow's Parties: Sex and the Untimely in Nineteenth-Century America. New York: NYU Press, 2013.
    Currie, Mark. About Time: Narrative, Fiction and the Philosophy of Time. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2007.
    Currie, Mark. The Unexpected: Narrative Temporality and the Philosophy of Surprise. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2013.
    Davis, Kathleen. Periodization and Sovereignty: How Ideas of Feudalism and Secularization Govern the Politics of Time. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2008.
    De Man, Paul. “The Rhetoric of Temporality.” In Blindness and Insight: Essays in the Rhetoric of Contemporary Criticism. 2nd ed. rev. London: Routledge, 2013: 187–228.
    de Romilly, Jacqueline. Time in Greek Tragedy. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1968.
    Dimock, Wai-Chee. Through Other Continents: American Literature across Deep Time. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2006.
    Dinshaw, Carolyn. How Soon Is Now? Medieval Texts, Amateur Readers, and the Queerness of Time. Durham: Duke University Press, 2012.
    Emberley, Julia V. The Testimonial Uncanny: Indigenous Storytelling, Knowledge, and Reparative Practices. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2014.
    English, Daylanne K. Each Hour Redeem: Time and Justice in African American Literature. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2013.
    Felski, Rita. “Context Stinks!” New Literary History 42 (2011): 573–91.
    Frye, Northrop. Anatomy of Criticism: Four Essays. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1957.
    Genette, Gérard. Narrative Discourse: An Essay in Method. 1973. Trans. Lewin, Jan E.. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1980.
    Gomel, Elana. “Shapes of the Past and the Future: Darwin and the Narratology of Time Travel.” Narrative 17.3 (October 2009): 334–52.
    Grant, Stuart, McNeilly, Jody, and Veerapen, Maeva, eds. Performance and Temporalisation: Time Happens. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.
    Guthrie, James K. Above Time: Emerson's and Thoreau's Temporal Revolutions. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2001.
    Hägglund, Martin. Dying for Time: Proust, Woolf, Nabokov. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2012.10.4159/harvard.9780674067844
    Harris, Jonathan Gil. Untimely Matter in the Time of Shakespeare. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2009.
    Huebener, Paul. Timing Canada: The Shifting Politics of Time in Canadian Literary Culture. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2015.
    Insko, Jeffrey. “The Prehistory of Posthistoricism.” In The Limits of Literary Historicism, ed. Dunn, Allen and Haddox, Thomas F.. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2011: 105–23.
    Kastan, David Scott. Shakespeare and the Shapes of Time. Hanover: University Press of New England, 1982.
    Kermode, Frank. The Sense of an Ending. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1966.
    Kern, Stephen. The Culture of Time and Space, 1880–1918. 2nd ed. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2003.
    Larkin, Edward. The American School of Empire. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016.
    Luciano, Dana. Arranging Grief: Sacred Time and the Body in Nineteenth-Century America. New York: NYU Press, 2007.
    Maisano, Scott. “Now.” In Twenty-first Century Approaches to Early Modern Theatricality, ed. Turner, Henry S.. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013: 368–85.
    Matz, Jesse. “The Art of Time, Theory to Practice.” Narrative 19.3 (October 2011): 273–94.
    Matz, Jesse. “J. B. Priestley in the Theater of Time.” Modernism/modernity 19.2 (April 2012): 321–42.
    Menely, Tobias. “‘The Present Obfuscation’: Cowper's Task and the Time of Climate Change.” PMLA 127.3 (May 2012): 477–92.
    Morson, Gary Saul. “Bakhtin, Genre, and Temporality.” New Literary History 22 (1991): 1071–92.
    Morson, Gary Saul. Narrative and Freedom: The Shadows of Time. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1994.
    Patrides, C. A., ed. Aspects of Time. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1976.
    Pratt, Lloyd. Archives of American Time: Literature and Modernity in the Nineteenth Century. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2009.
    Quinones, Ricardo. The Renaissance Discovery of Time. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1972.
    Reed, Anthony. Freedom Time: The Poetics and Politics of Black Experimental Writing. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2014.
    Ricoeur, Paul. Time and Narrative. 3 vols. Trans. McLaughlin, Kathleen, Pellauer, David, and Blamey, Kathleen. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1984–6.
    Rohy, Valerie. Anachronism and Its Others: Sexuality, Race, Temporality. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2010.
    Roudeau, Cécile. “The Buried Scales of Deep Time: Beneath the Nation, beyond the Human…and Back?” Transatlantica: Revue d’études américaines 1 (2015). transatlantica.revues.org/7455.
    Sherman, Stuart. Telling Time: Clocks, Diaries, and English Diurnal Form, 1660–1785. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996.
    Sizemore, Michelle. American Enchantment: Rituals of the People in the Post-Revolutionary World. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018.
    Strehle, Susan. Fiction in the Quantum Universe. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1992.
    Tung, Charles. “Baddest Modernism: The Scales and Lines of Inhuman Time.” Modernism/modernity 23.3 (2016): 515–38.
    Tung, Charles. “Modernism, Time Machines, and the Defamiliarization of Time.” Configurations 23.1 (Winter 2015): 93–121.
    Wagner, Matthew D. Shakespeare, Theatre, and Time. London: Routledge, 2012.
    Weinstein, Cindy. Time, Tense, and American Literature: When Is Now? Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015.
    Wiles, David. Theatre & Time. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.
    Wittenberg, David. Time Travel: The Popular Philosophy of Narrative. New York: Fordham University Press, 2013.
    Zemka, Sue. Time and the Moment in Victorian Literature and Society. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011.

    Environment and Ecology

    Aravamudan, Srinivas. “The Catachronism of Climate Change.” diacritics 41.3 (2013): 6–30.
    Baucom, Ian. “History 4°: Postcolonial Method and Anthropocene Time.” Cambridge Journal of Postcolonial Literary Inquiry 1.1 (March 2014): 123–42.10.1017/pli.2013.13
    Chakrabarty, Dipesh. “The Climate of History: Four Theses.” Critical Inquiry 35.2 (Winter 2009): 197–222.
    Davies, Jeremy. The Birth of the Anthropocene. Oakland: University of California Press, 2016.
    Ghosh, Amitav. The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2016.
    Gould, Stephen Jay. Time's Arrow, Time's Cycle: Myth and Metaphor in the Discovery of Geological Time. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1987.
    Haraway, Donna J. Staying with the Trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulucene. Durham: Duke University Press, 2016.
    Heise, Ursula. Imagining Extinction: The Cultural Meanings of Endangered Species. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2016.
    Heringman, Noah. “Evolutionary Nostalgia in the Anthropocene.” Minnesota Review 83 (2014): 143–52.
    Latour, Bruno. “Agency at the Time of the Anthropocene.” New Literary History 45.1 (Winter 2014): 1–18.
    Nixon, Rob. Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2011.
    Ronda, Margaret. “Mourning and Melancholia in the Anthropocene.” Post45, June 10, 2013.

    Historical Studies of Timekeeping and Time Measurement

    Bartky, Ian R. One Time Fits All: The Campaigns for Global Uniformity. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2007.
    Canales, Jimena. A Tenth of a Second: A History. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2009.
    Demos, John. Circles and Lines: The Shape of Life in Early America. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2004.
    Dohrn-Van Rossum, Gerhard. History of the Hour: Clocks and Modern Temporal Orders. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996.
    Galison, Peter. Einstein's Clocks, Poincaré's Maps: Empires of Time. New York: W. W. Norton, 2003.
    Glennie, Paul, and Thrift, Nigel. Shaping the Day: A History of Timekeeping in England and Wales 1300–1800. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009.
    Landes, David S. Revolution in Time: Clocks and the Making of the Modern World. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1983.
    Le Goff, Jacques. Time, Work, and Culture in the Middle Ages. Trans. Goldhammer, Arthur. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1980.
    Macey, Samuel. Clocks and the Cosmos: Time in Western Life and Thought. Hamden: Archon, 1980.
    McCrossen, Alexis. Marking Modern Times: A History of Clocks, Watches, and Other Timekeepers in American Life. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2013.
    Mumford, Lewis. Technics and Civilization. 1934. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2010.
    O'Malley, Michael. Keeping Watch: A History of American Time. New York: Viking, 1990.
    Smith, Mark. Mastered by the Clock: Time, Slavery, and Freedom in the American South. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1997.
    Stephens, Carlene E. On Time: How America Has Learned to Live by the Clock. Boston: Bulfinch Press, 2002.
    Thompson, E. P. “Time, Work-Discipline, and Industrial Capitalism.” Past & Present 38 (December 1967): 56–97.10.1093/past/38.1.56
    Toulmin, Stephen, and Goodfield, June. The Discovery of Time. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1965.

    Metrics

    Altmetric attention score

    Full text views

    Total number of HTML views: 0
    Total number of PDF views: 0 *
    Loading metrics...

    Book summary page views

    Total views: 0 *
    Loading metrics...

    * Views captured on Cambridge Core between #date#. This data will be updated every 24 hours.

    Usage data cannot currently be displayed.

    Accessibility standard: Unknown

    Why this information is here

    This section outlines the accessibility features of this content - including support for screen readers, full keyboard navigation and high-contrast display options. This may not be relevant for you.

    Accessibility Information

    Accessibility compliance for the HTML of this book is currently unknown and may be updated in the future.