How soon is now?
Subtitle: medieval texts, amateur readers, and the queerness of time
By: Carolyn Dinshaw
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Durham, NC
Language: eng
Number of pages: 251
ISBN-13: 9780822353539; 9780822353676
Subjects: History; Time in literature; Time; History and criticism; Queer theory; Medieval Literature
Description: "How Soon Is Now? performs a powerful critique of modernist temporal regimes through its revelatory exploration of queer ways of being in time as well as of the potential queerness of time itself. Carolyn Dinshaw focuses on medieval tales of asynchrony and on engagements with these medieval temporal worlds by amateur readers centuries later. In doing so, she illuminates forms of desirous, embodied being that are out of sync with ordinarily linear measurements of everyday life, that involve multiple temporalities, that precipitate out of time altogether. Dinshaw claims the possibility of a fuller, denser, more crowded now that theorists tell us is extant but that often eludes our temporal grasp."--Page 4 of cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Asynchrony stories : monks, kings, sleepers and other time travelers; title: Temporally oriented : the book of John Mandeville, British India, philology and the postcolonial medievalist; title: In the now : Margery Kempe, Hope Emily Allen and me; title: Out of sync in the Catskills : Rip van Winkle, Geoffrey Crayon, James I, and other ghosts.