Research Catalog

Title

Modernist time ecology / Jesse Matz.

Author

Matz, Jesse

Publication

• Baltimore, Maryland : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019.
• ©2019

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Details

Description

ix, 308 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.

Summary

"Do our fictions transform time? Do they cultivate the temporal environment? Such was the hope--or the fantasy--at work in many modernist novels for which time was not only the major subject but also an object of reparative aspiration. Aimed at a kind of stewardship of time, these fictions constitute a practice of modernist time ecology: an effort to restore those landscapes of time that have been thrown into crisis by modernity. In Modernist Time Ecology, Jesse Matz redefines temporal experimentation in central writers like Proust, Mann, Woolf, Ellison, and Cather, who developed literary forms to cultivate, restore, and enrich the temporal environment. He brings fresh attention to others who best exemplify this ecological motive, arguing that E.M. Forster, J.B. Priestley, and V.S. Naipaul are leading figures in this practice of temporal redress. Matz also reveals how contemporary film, social media movements, and public service efforts show what has become of the modernist interest in temporal stewardship. Matz combines an array of disciplines--including narrative theory, sociology, phenomenology, cognitive psychology, film studies, queer theory, and environmental studies--to theorize and explain the rationale and the limits to the idea that time might be subject to textual cultivation. Modernist Time Ecology is a deeply interdisciplinary book that changes what we think literature and the arts can do for the world at large"--

Series Statement

HSM Hopkins studies in modernism

Uniform Title

Hopkins studies in modernism.

Subject

• Modernism (Literature)
• Time in literature
• LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory
• LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General
• LITERARY CRITICISM / European / General

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-295) and index.

Contents

Introduction -- The art of time, theory to practice -- Modernist time ecology -- Bergson, Bakhtin, and the ecological chronotope -- Timescapes of moderninst fiction -- Maurice in time -- J.B. Priestley in the theater of time -- Naipaul's changing times -- Time ecology today -- Film-time ecology -- The queer prospect -- Conclusion.

Call Number

JFE 19-3546

ISBN

• 9781421426990
• 1421426994
• 9781421427003 (canceled/invalid)
• 1421427001 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

2018013349

OCLC

1032292300

Author

Matz, Jesse, author.

Title

Modernist time ecology / Jesse Matz.

Publisher

Baltimore, Maryland : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019.

Copyright Date

©2019

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

HSM Hopkins studies in modernism

Hopkins studies in modernism.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-295) and index.

Research Call Number

JFE 19-3546