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Author:   Declan Lloyd ,  Warren Mortimer ,  Declan Lloyd ,  Warren Mortimer
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Imprint:   Lexington Books
Dimensions:   Width: 16.00cm , Height: 2.60cm , Length: 23.60cm
Weight:   0.717kg
ISBN:  

9781666948417

ISBN 10:   1666948411
Pages:   334
Publication Date:   18 June 2024
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Table of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction: “To Brood Upon These Magnitudes”: A Digression on Deep Time in Literature and the Arts Declan Lloyd Part 1: Deep Time Poetics Introductory Keynote: Deep Time Poetics Andrew Tate Chapter 1: The Horizons of Time: A Psycholinguistic Exploration of Spatiotemporal Metaphor in Recent Studies of Deep Time Emil Tangham Hazelhurst Chapter 2: Deep Time Trauma and Dantean Salvation in T. S. Eliot’s Four Quartets Warren Mortimer Chapter 3: “That Huge and Microscopic Career of Time”: William Carlos Williams’s Time-Lapse Poetics Sean Keck Chapter 4: Deep Time Necrodidactics: Poetics and Pedagogy of the Anthropocene Roger Davis Chapter 5: “Through the Vista of Geologic Time”: Literary Naturalism and the Ecological Sublime in the Writings of John Burroughs Stephen Mercier Part 2: Deep Time Narratives Introductory Keynote: Pasts and Futures Present: Deep Time as Historical Narrative Benjamin Morgan Chapter 6: Deep Time in J. G. Ballard, or the “New Man” in the Mesh of Life Joel Evans Chapter 7: “Curlew or Curfew. You Choose”: Nature, Politics, and Deep Time in Ali Smith’s Seasonal Series Flora Sagers Chapter 8: The Call of the Void: Deep Time in the Early Science Fiction of H. G. Wells and Isaac Asimov William Nolen Chapter 9: Deep History and the Pursuit of Pure Origins in the Work of William Faulkner and Cormac McCarthy Bernard Joy Chapter 10: The Great “Enmuddening”: Deep Time in Classical Antiquity and the Example of Xenophanes James Calvin Taylor Part 3: Deep Time Aesthetics Introductory Keynote: The Concealment of Deep Time Richard Irvine Chapter 11: Visualizing Deep Time: Environmental Narratives and Temporal Spatialization in EcoComix and Graphic Novels Anthony Enns Chapter 12: Art in One Million Years: Deep Time Aesthetics through Deleuze’s Material Notions of Time Jakub Zdebik Chapter 13: Architectures of Critical Mass: Expressions of Deep Time in Contemporary Design Practice Maria Gloria Robalino Chapter 14: Gamifying Deep Time: Archeogaming and the Anthropocene in the Horizon Franchise Sarah Wagstaffe A Q&A with John McPhee Afterword: The Deep Time Sublime Declan Lloyd and Warren Mortimer Index About the Editors, Keynotes and Contributors

Reviews

""This collection is as rich and layered as the geological strata it seeks to understand. Charting new paths through ecocriticism and the human imagination, Digressions in Deep Time doesn't just delve into deep time--it reworks our understanding of it."" This is both a deeply significant and timely intervention in the field of ecocriticism. Befitting its subject, the book ranges widely from classical antiquity to Ali Smith, T.S. Eliot to videogames, John Cage to graphic novels. Deep time may defy human comprehension but these essays demonstrate the importance of art and literature for making climate science accessible to human understanding.

This is both a deeply significant and timely intervention in the field of ecocriticism. Befitting its subject, the book ranges widely from classical antiquity to Ali Smith, T.S. Eliot to videogames, John Cage to graphic novels. Deep time may defy human comprehension but these essays demonstrate the importance of art and literature for making climate science accessible to human understanding. --Paul March-Russell, author of Modernism and Science Fiction

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Declan Lloyd is lecturer and teaches across the English Literature, History and Sociology departments at Lancaster University. Warren Mortimer is lecturer and poet, and holds a PhD in creative writing from Lancaster University.

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