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Time, tense, and American literature : when is now?
- Title
- Time, tense, and American literature : when is now? / Cindy Weinstein.
- Author
- Weinstein, Cindy
- Publication
- New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2015.
- ©2015
- Supplementary Content
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- Description
- xii, 181 pages; 24 cm
- Summary
- "In Time and American Literature, Cindy Weinstein examines canonical American authors who employ a range of tenses to tell a story that has already taken place. This book argues that key texts in the archive of American literature are inconsistent in their retrospective status, ricocheting between past, present, and future. Taking "The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym" as her point of departure, Weinstein shows how Poe's way of representing time involves careening tenses, missing chronometers, and inoperable watches, thus establishing a vocabulary of time that is further articulated in works by Crane, Hawthorne, Melville, and Dreiser. Each chapter examines the often strange narrative fabric of these works and presents an opportunity to understand how especially complicated historical moments, from the founding of the new nation to the psychic consequences of the Civil War, find contextual expression through a literary uncertainty about time"--
- Series Statement
- Cambridge studies in American literature and culture ; 173
- Uniform Title
- Cambridge studies in American literature and culture ; 173.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 165-174) and index.
- Contents
- Introduction: Tempo(e)rality -- 1. Edgar's first time -- 2. When is now? Poe's Pym -- 3. Heaven's tense: narration in The Gates Ajar -- 4. Now and then: time in An American Tragedy -- 5. The 'would' to power: Edward P. Jones's The Known World -- Before and afterword: Making connexions.
- Call Number
- JFE 15-7874
- ISBN
- 9781107099876
- 1107099870
- LCCN
- 2015014129
- OCLC
- 908838610
- Author
- Weinstein, Cindy, author.
- Title
- Time, tense, and American literature : when is now? / Cindy Weinstein.
- Publisher
- New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2015.
- Copyright Date
- ©2015
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- Cambridge studies in American literature and culture ; 173Cambridge studies in American literature and culture ; 173.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 165-174) and index.
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- Research Call Number
- JFE 15-7874