How soon is now? : medieval texts, amateur readers, and the queerness of time /

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How Soon Is Now? performs a powerful critique of modernist temporal regimes through its revelatory exploration of queer ways of being in time as well as of the potential queerness of time itself. Carolyn Dinshaw focuses on medieval tales of asynchrony and on engagements with these medieval temporal...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Dinshaw, Carolyn (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Durham : Duke University Press, 2012.
Subjects:
To 1500
Time in literature.
Time > History > To 1500.
Literature, Medieval > History and criticism.
Queer theory.
Temps dans la littérature.
Littérature médiévale > Histoire et critique.
Théorie queer.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > General.
HISTORY > Medieval.
Time in literature
Literature, Medieval
Queer theory
Time
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Asynchrony stories : monks, kings, sleepers and other time travelers
  • Temporally oriented : the book of John Mandeville, British India, philology and the postcolonial medievalist
  • In the now : Margery Kempe, Hope Emily Allen and me
  • Out of sync in the Catskills : Rip van Winkle, Geoffrey Crayon, James I, and other ghosts.

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