Detaining Time is the first book to investigate the representation
of time in literature in terms of the project to reconceptualize
time, so that its movement no longer threatens security. Focusing
on the nature, consequences, and resolution of resistance to
temporal passage, Eric P. Levy offers detailed and probing close
readings, enriched by thorough yet engaging explication and
application of prominent philosophical theories of time. Philosophy
is here employed not as a rigid model to which literature is forced
to conform, but instead as a lens through which elements crucial to
the literary texts can be isolated and clarified, even as they
concern ideas different from those expounded in philosophy. The
literary texts treated include Hamlet, Hard Times, Ulysses, Mrs
Dalloway, To the Lighthouse, a wide range of Beckettian works, and
Enduring Love - texts distinguished by their challenging,
relentless, original, and dramatic depiction of the struggle with
temporality. The philosophies of time covered include those of
Aristotle, Kant, Bergson, John McTaggart, C.D. Broad, Edmund
Husserl and Gilles Deleuze.
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