Time, Literature, and Cartography after the Spatial Turn: The Chronometric Imaginary

Barrows, Adam

ISBN 10: 1137571403 / ISBN 13: 9781137571403

Published by Palgrave MacMillan, NY, 2016

A nice, bright copy. ; Geocriticism And Spatial Literary Studies; 8vo ; 178 pages. Seller Inventory # 294836

Synopsis:

Time, Literature and Cartography after the Spatial Turn argues that the spatial turn in literary studies has the unexplored potential to reinvigorate the ways in which we understand time in literature.  Drawing on new readings of time in a range of literary narratives, including Vladimir Nabokov’s Ada and James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake, Adam Barrows explores literature’s ability to cartographically represent the dense and tangled rhythmic processes that constitute lived spaces.  Applying the insights of ecological resilience studies, as well as Henri Lefebvre’s late work on rhythm to literary representations of time, this book offers a sustained examination of literature’s “chronometric imaginary”: its capacity to map the temporal relationships between the human and the non-human, the local and the global.

About the Author:

Adam Barrows is Associate Professor in the Department of English and Director of the Institute of Interdisciplinary Studies at Carleton University, Canada.  He is the author of The Cosmic Time of Empire and a recipient of the Modern Fiction Studies Margaret Church Memorial Prize.

Bibliographic Details

Title: Time, Literature, and Cartography after the ...
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan, NY
Publication Date: 2016
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Near Fine
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