A Question of Time - American Literature from Colonial Encounter to Contemporary Fiction (Paperback)

This book brings together leading critics in American literature to address the representation of time throughout a wide range of genres, methodologies, and chronological periods. American literature, from its beginnings to the present, provides a particularly rich set of texts to examine in this regard, with its interest in history, modernity and progress. Each essay considers how time embeds itself in a variety of textual representations, including Native American rituals, Shaker dances, novels, poetry, and magazines in order to provide readers with a capacious view of time's constitutive role in American literature. The essays are organized into four sections - Materializing Time, Performing Time, Timing Time, and Theorizing Time. Each section reflects a particular approach to the question of time, but taken as a whole the volume makes visible unexpected temporal patterns that cut across time period and genre.

General

Imprint:	Cambridge UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	2023
Editors:	Cindy Weinstein
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	363
ISBN-13:	978-1-108-43710-3
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > General
LSN:	1-108-43710-9
Barcode:	9781108437103

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