Beschreibung:
Time and the literary: the immediacy of information technology has supposedly annihilated both. Email, cell phones, satellite broadcasting seem to have ended the long-standing tradition of encoding our experience of time through writing. Paul de Man's seminal essay "e;Literary History and Literary Modernity"e; and newly commissioned essays on everything from the human genome to grammatical tenses argue, however that the literary constantly reconstructs our understanding of time. From eleventh-century France or a science-fiction future, Time and the Literary shows how these two concepts have been and will continue to influence each other.
Introduction Karen Newman, Jay Clayton, Marianne Hirsh Part I 1. Undoing Catherine Gallagher 2. Genome Time Jay Clayton 3. The Future Literary: Literature and the Culture of Information, Alan Liu 4. Econstructing Sisterhood Jane Gallop Part II 5. Re-reading Literary History and Modernity: Paul de Man's Ambivalence Jonathan Arac 6. Literary History and Literary Modernity Paul de Man 7. Doing Time: Re-reading Paul de Man's Literary History and Literary Modernity Barbara Johnson Part III 8. Re-reading the Apocalypse: Millennial Politics in 19th and 11th Century France Stephen G. Nichols 9. Group Time: Catastrophe, Survival and Periodicity Louise Fradenburg 10. Historifying Marginal Practices Samuel R. Delaney