Modernist Time Ecology

Erscheinungsjahr 2018
ISBN: 978-1-4214-2699-0
Verlag: Johns Hopkins University Press

Buch, Englisch, 320 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 565 g

Reihe: Hopkins Studies in Modernism

A new view of the way modernist fiction writers tried to solve the problem of time.

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Matz, Jesse

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Europäische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften Semiotik
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Strömungen & Epochen
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur Amerikanische Literatur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter One. The Art of Time, Theory to Practice
Chapter Two. Modernist Time Ecology
Chapter Three. Bergson, Bakhtin, and the Ecological Chronotope
Chapter Four. Timescapes of Modernist Fiction
Chapter Five. Maurice in Time
Chapter Six. J. B. Priestley in the Theater of Time
Chapter Seven. Naipaul's Changing Times
Chapter Eight. Time Ecology Today
Chapter Nine. Film-Time Ecology
Chapter Ten. The Queer Prospect
Conclusion
Notes
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Matz, Jesse
Jesse Matz is the William P. Rice Professor of English at Kenyon College. He is the author of Literary Impressionism and Modernist Aesthetics and Lasting Impressions: The Legacies of Impressionism in Contemporary Culture.

Jesse Matz is the William P. Rice Professor of English at Kenyon College. He is the author of Literary Impressionism and Modernist Aesthetics and Lasting Impressions: The Legacies of Impressionism in Contemporary Culture.