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Temporalities (Hardcover)
Russell West-pavlov; Series edited by John Drakakis
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Temporalities presents a concise critical introduction to the
treatment of time throughout literature. Time and its passage
represent one of the oldest and most complex philosophical subjects
in art of all forms, and Russell West-Pavlov explains and
interrogates the most important theories of temporality across a
range of disciplines. The author explores temporality's
relationship with a diverse range of related concepts, including:
historiography psychology gender economics postmodernism
postcolonialism Russell West-Pavlov examines time as a crucial part
of the critical theories of Newton, Freud, Ricoeur, Benjamin, and
explores the treatment of time in a broad range of texts, ranging
from the writings of St. Augustine and Sterne's Tristram Shandy, to
Woolf's Mrs Dalloway and Stoppard's Rosencrantz and Guildenstern
are Dead. This comprehensive and accessible guide establishes
temporality as an essential theme within literary and cultural
studies today.
Temporalities presents a concise critical introduction to the
treatment of time throughout literature. Time and its passage
represent one of the oldest and most complex philosophical subjects
in art of all forms, and Russell West-Pavlov explains and
interrogates the most important theories of temporality across a
range of disciplines. The author explores temporality's
relationship with a diverse range of related concepts, including:
historiography psychology gender economics postmodernism
postcolonialism Russell West-Pavlov examines time as a crucial part
of the critical theories of Newton, Freud, Ricoeur, Benjamin, and
explores the treatment of time in a broad range of texts, ranging
from the writings of St. Augustine and Sterne's Tristram Shandy, to
Woolf's Mrs Dalloway and Stoppard's Rosencrantz and Guildenstern
are Dead. This comprehensive and accessible guide establishes
temporality as an essential theme within literary and cultural
studies today.
First published in 1790 Edmund Burke's Reflections on the
Revolution in France initiated a debate not only about the nature
of the unprecedented historical events taking place across the
channel, but about the very identity of the British state and its
people. It has subsequently been appropriated by a variety of
conservative and liberal thinkers and has played a major role in
our understanding of the relationship between rhetoric, aesthetics
and politics.In this volume, leading Burke scholars offer new and
challenging essays which allow us to reconsider the historical
context in which Reflections on the Revolution in France was
written. The essays consider its reception, its engagements in the
discourses of nationalism and toleration, its legacy to English and
Irish writers of the Romantic period and its impact within our
contemporary cultural and critical theory. The volume demonstrates
a range of interdisciplinary critical methods and cultural
perspectives from which to read Burke's most famous work.This
volume will be the ideal companion to Burke's Reflections for all
students of literature, history, politics and Irish studies.
The Oxford Studies in Postcolonial Literatures series offers
stimulating and accessible introductions to definitive topics and
key genres and regions within the rapidly diversifying field of
postcolonial literary studies in English. This volume offers an
overview of contemporary Eastern African writing in English since
the mid-twentieth century. It takes a fresh look at what has been
an under-represented regional literary tradition within what
continues to be an under-represented continental literary
tradition. In particular, it broadens the scope of such an
overview, complementing the extant monographs on well-known Eastern
African writers such as Ngugi to include a host of more recent,
less-publicized novelists, dramatists, and poets. It extends the
geographical range of existing studies from the familiar triad of
Kenyan, Ugandan, and Tanzanian traditions of writing in English, to
include the lesser-known Somali, Ethiopian, or Sudanese, or
Mauritian or Madagascan traditions. Rather than simply addressing
national traditions or broad thematic bundles, the volume treats
works as literatures of a region: that is, as literatures of place
and space. Eastern African Literatures stresses the formative role
of space, place and geography in fashioning the fabric of social
interaction, whether individual or collective, in generating
history, in moulding identities, and as a consequence in defining
the shape of the future. The 'spatial' perspectives allow the
'proximate' rather than the 'distant' influence of literary art to
come into view. Proximate modes of literary communication, arising
out of residual but vibrant traditions of oral communication, blend
with contemporary media to produce hybrid genres of proximity
specific to Eastern African literary production. In this way, the
book also makes a contribution to the ongoing theorization of
literary and cultural innovation in the cultures of the Global
South.
The Oxford Studies in Postcolonial Literatures series offers
stimulating and accessible introductions to definitive topics and
key genres and regions within the rapidly diversifying field of
postcolonial literary studies in English. This volume offers an
overview of contemporary Eastern African writing in English since
the mid-twentieth century. It takes a fresh look at what has been
an under-represented regional literary tradition within what
continues to be an under-represented continental literary
tradition. In particular, it broadens the scope of such an
overview, complementing the extant monographs on well-known Eastern
African writers such as Ngugi to include a host of more recent,
less-publicized novelists, dramatists, and poets. It extends the
geographical range of existing studies from the familiar triad of
Kenyan, Ugandan, and Tanzanian traditions of writing in English, to
include the lesser-known Somali, Ethiopian, or Sudanese, or
Mauritian or Madagascan traditions. Rather than simply addressing
national traditions or broad thematic bundles, the volume treats
works as literatures of a region: that is, as literatures of place
and space. Eastern African Literatures stresses the formative role
of space, place and geography in fashioning the fabric of social
interaction, whether individual or collective, in generating
history, in moulding identities, and as a consequence in defining
the shape of the future. The 'spatial' perspectives allow the
'proximate' rather than the 'distant' influence of literary art to
come into view. Proximate modes of literary communication, arising
out of residual but vibrant traditions of oral communication, blend
with contemporary media to produce hybrid genres of proximity
specific to Eastern African literary production. In this way, the
book also makes a contribution to the ongoing theorization of
literary and cultural innovation in the cultures of the Global
South.
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