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 tem...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Dinshaw, Carolyn
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Durham, NC : Duke University Press, 2012.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Queer-Theorie
Zeitbewusstsein
Zeit > Motiv
Literatur
Time.
Queer theory.
Literature, Medieval.
Time in literature.
Literature.
Theorie queer.
Litterature medievale > Histoire et critique.
Temps dans la litterature.
Literature, Medieval > History and criticism.
Time > History > To 1500.
History.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
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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