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
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Summary:"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 worlds by amateur readers centuries later. In doing so, she illuminates forms of desirous, embodied being that are out of sync with ordinarily linear measurements of everyday life, that involve multiple temporalities, that precipitate out of time altogether. Dinshaw claims the possibility of a fuller, denser, more crowded now that theorists tell us is extant but that often eludes our temporal grasp."--Page 4 of cover.
Physical Description:1 online resource (272 pages): illustrations ;
ISBN:9780822395911

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