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Temporalities, Texts, Ideologies

By Bobby Xinyue

Temporalities, Texts, Ideologies

By Bobby Xinyue

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Temporalities, Texts, Ideologies provides a new analysis of the significance of time in Classical and early modern literature, demonstrating that literary temporality continually intervenes in questions of ontology, hierarchy and politics. Examining a diverse range of texts from Homeric epic to eighteenth-century poems on the Last Judgement, this collection of essays contends that temporality in literature sits at the heart of how authors from antiquity through to the early modern period understood and negotiated the structures that shaped their lives and may shape lives to come.Approaching the topic through four themes, the essays in this volume highlight the ways in which time is construed as relational, contestable and politically inflected. The authors show that variations in temporalities enable texts to critique the interactions or tensions between tradition and change, agency and determinism, social system and individual experience. The result is a refreshing approach to literary figurations of time that responds to the recent 'temporal turn' in the humanities, engages with current critical trends (such as ontological analysis and ecological criticism), and opens up an exciting new direction for future research on the connection between time, text, and context.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
286
Release Date:
2025-08-21
Publication Date:
2025-08-21
Publisher:
Bloomsbury Academic
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
1350257265
ISBN13:
9781350257269
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
439 g
Height:
156 cm
Width:
234 cm
Thickness:
16 cm
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