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Time, Tense, and American Literature - When Is Now? (Paperback)
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Time, Tense, and American Literature - When Is Now? (Paperback)
Series: Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture
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In Time, Tense, and American Literature, Cindy Weinstein examines
canonical American authors who employ a range of tenses to tell a
story that has already taken place. This book argues that key texts
in the archive of American literature are inconsistent in their
retrospective status, ricocheting between past, present and future.
Taking 'The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym' as her point of
departure, Weinstein shows how Poe's way of representing time
involves careening tenses, missing chronometers and inoperable
watches, thus establishing a vocabulary of time that is at once
anticipated in the fiction of Charles Brockden Brown and further
articulated in works by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, Theodore Dreiser
and Edward P. Jones. Each chapter examines the often strange
narrative fabric of these novels and presents an opportunity to
understand how especially complicated historical moments, from the
founding of the new nation to the psychic consequences of the Civil
War, find contextual expression through a literary uncertainty
about time.
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