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Many poets, playwrights, and novelists have grappled with the concept of time. Even more scholars have analyzed how novelists have used time for structuring, organizing, plotting and philosophizing. This collection of essays about the use of time in the novel is unique not only because the writers cover a wide range of concepts of time, but also because they locate certain novels within a specific time culture. The chapters analyze novels (and one film) with definite time cultures, providing hints as to the future of the use of time in the novel. Emily Bald’s chapter begins the collection in the nineteenth century with Life in the Iron Mills showing both inner time – the perceptual time which fluctuates with the vicissitudes of affective experience – and external time, which has become known as clock time. This ties in well with Rachel Kaufmann’s chapter exploring felt time in contemporary women’s literature. Marco Caracciolo’s chapter adds “cosmic time” to Ricoeur’s monumental and mortal time with the case studies of Virginia Woolf’s The Waves, and Terrence Malick’s film The Tree of Life. Two chapters explore the effects of World War Two: AJ Burgin presents the disorienting technique of Martin Amis’ Time’s Arrow that shows time going backwards – even in dialogue. Raymond Burt presents two novels of Michael Köhlmeier, a contemporary Austrian writer, spanning the decades since the end of World War Two, with his chapter drawing the link between time and morality. The final chapter on Calvino’s If on a winter’s night a traveler shows the multiplicity of time that the previous chapters have demonstrated so clearly. Terms such as affect, truth, haunting, memory, reality, identity, morality and mortality all resonate within these chapters as characters within the novels and their specific culture areas grapple with time, recall the past, and attempt to live in the present. Many of the writers in this collection point towards possible new methods of dealing with time; reading methods; engaging with the novel writers of the future in new and interesting relationships. Here, Time has not been wasted.
"Many poets, playwrights, and novelists have grappled with the concept of time. Even more scholars have analyzed how novelists have used time for structuring, organizing, plotting and philosophizing. This collection of essays about the use of time in the novel is unique not only because the writers cover a wide range of concepts of time, but also because they locate certain novels within a specific time culture. The chapters analyze novels (and one film) with definite time cultures, providing hints as to the future of the use of time in the novel. Emily Bald's chapter begins the collection in the nineteenth century with Life in the Iron Mills showing both inner time - the perceptual time which fluctuates with the vicissitudes of affective experience - and external time, which has become known as clock time. This ties in well with Rachel Kaufmann's chapter exploring felt time in contemporary women's literature. Marco Caracciolo's chapter adds "cosmic time" to Ricoeur's monumental and mortal time with the case studies of Virginia Woolf's The Waves, and Terrence Malick's film The Tree of Life. Two chapters explore the effects of World War Two: AJ Burgin presents the disorienting technique of Martin Amis' Time's Arrow that shows time going backwards - even in dialogue. Raymond Burt presents two novels of Michael K�hlmeier, a contemporary Austrian writer, spanning the decades since the end of World War Two, with his chapter drawing the link between time and morality. The final chapter on Calvino's If on a winter's night a traveler shows the multiplicity of time that the previous chapters have demonstrated so clearly. Terms such as affect, truth, haunting, memory, reality, identity, morality and mortality all resonate within these chapters as characters within the novels and their specific culture areas grapple with time, recall the past, and attempt to live in the present. Many of the writers in this collection point towards possible new methods of dealing with time; reading methods; engaging with the novel writers of the future in new and interesting relationships. Here, Time has not been wasted."
This volume investigates interdisciplinary intersections between law and the humanities from the Renaissance to the present day. It allows for fruitful encounters between different disciplines: from literature to science, from the visual arts to the post-human, from the postmodern novel’s experimentation to most recent approaches towards the legal interpretation of literary texts. This productive dialogue fosters original perspectives in the interpretation of and reflection upon identity, justice, power and human rights and values, thus underlining the role of literature in the articulation of relevant cultural issues pertaining to specific periods.
Join Christian, a young boy, who is about to embark on the greatest adventure of his life. After being kidnapped by pirates he is imprisoned on a mysterious and unusual ship named the Vengeance Spirit. He soon discovers that the reason for his capture is that he is the key player in an ongoing war between two ancient kingdoms. With his gifts of prophecy and magical items Christian and his friends will fight for their lives to restore an ancient civilization and set right what went horribly wrong at the beginning of mankind's history ages ago. Facing prehistoric sea monsters, mythical beasts, and a tyrannical pirate captain are just the beginning of the many adventures Christian and his group of ragtag allies will endure. Follow them in this first quest and witness... The Rise of the Oracle
Winner of the 2012 Pulitzer Prize * Poet Laureate of the United States * * A New York Times Notable Book of 2011 and New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice * * A New Yorker, Library Journal and Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year * New poetry by the award-winning poet Tracy K. Smith, whose "lyric brilliance and political impulses never falter" (Publishers Weekly, starred review) You lie there kicking like a baby, waiting for God himself To lift you past the rungs of your crib. What Would your life say if it could talk? —from "No Fly Zone" With allusions to David Bowie and interplanetary travel, Life on Mars imagines a soundtrack for the universe to accompany the discoveries, failures, and oddities of human existence. In these brilliant new poems, Tracy K. Smith envisions a sci-fi future sucked clean of any real dangers, contemplates the dark matter that keeps people both close and distant, and revisits the kitschy concepts like "love" and "illness" now relegated to the Museum of Obsolescence. These poems reveal the realities of life lived here, on the ground, where a daughter is imprisoned in the basement by her own father, where celebrities and pop stars walk among us, and where the poet herself loses her father, one of the engineers who worked on the Hubble Space Telescope. With this remarkable third collection, Smith establishes herself among the best poets of her generation.
One ordinary winter afternoon on a snowy island, Anders and Cecilia take their six-year-old daughter Maja across the ice to visit the lighthouse in the middle of the frozen channel. While the couple explores the lighthouse, Maja disappears--either into thin air or under thin ice--leaving not even a footprint in the snow.
Cale Valens, a graduating eighteen-year-old recluse, has become unsatisfied with the everyday life of an average teenager attending Stellar High School. Nothing explosive ever happened in the dull city of Irvine, California to brighten his day, no tragedies seemed to befall him as he ran a cheese-less mouse maze back and forth from home to school, and certainly no one ever tried to kill himgiven that he barely had anything much to live for as it was. He doesnt realize that everything he knew is all about to change as a mysterious toxin awakens a part of his personality that challenges his humanity as he, and a handful of other students around him, encounters what seems to be the end of life as they know it. Surviving an unfortunate attack after Stellar was quarantined starts to become almost an unlucky outcome for them as they are hunted even in their time of despair. They start to find that even in a supernatural world, there is a race for control as others try to regulate them. Luckily, Cale Valens always had a knack for rebellion, and it was a necessary time for his inner monster to start a riot against the world, if he can survive the malice the world had waiting for him.