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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Arkadiusz Misztal , Paul A. Harris , Jo Alyson ParkerPublisher: Brill Imprint: Brill Volume: 17 Weight: 0.696kg ISBN: 9789004470163ISBN 10: 9004470166 Pages: 326 Publication Date: 23 September 2021 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In stock  We have confirmation that this item is in stock with the supplier. It will be ordered in for you and dispatched immediately. Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Illustrations Notes on Contributors Introduction Paul A. Harris, Arkadiusz Misztal, and Jo Alyson Parker part 1: Variations on J. T. Fraser’s Hierarchical Theory of Time 1 President’s Address: Time in Variance Raji C. Steineck 2 Out of Plato’s Cave Steve Ostovich 3 From the Biotemporal to the Ecotemporal in Atilio Caballero’s La última playa Lucia Cash Beare 4 Founder’s Lecture: Is Time Out of Joint? Or at a New Threshold? Reflections on the Temporality of Climate Change David Wood 5 Slow Time: The Suspension of a Tension Paul A. Harris part 2: Variant Narratives 6 Temporal Otherness and the “Gifted Child” in Fiction Adam Barrows 7 The Seductive Quality of Variable Time in Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Sue Scheibler 8 In the Forest of Realities: Impossible Worlds in Film and Television Narratives Sonia Front 9 “Out of Repetition Comes Variation”: Varying Timelines, Invariant Time, and Dolores’s Glitch in Westworld Jo Alyson Parker and Thomas Weissert 10 Time in Variance and Time’s Invariance in Richard McGuire’s Here Arkadiusz Misztal part 3: Measuring Time’s Variance 11 Variance in Time Morphologies in Production and Consumption of Incense in Medieval Japan Vroni Ammann 12 Understanding Computation Time: A Critical Discussion of Time as a Computational Performance Metric David Harris-Birtill and Rose Harris-Birtill 13 Variations of Narrative Temporalities in John Farrow’s 1948 Film The Big Clock Raphaëlle Costa de Beauregard 14 Transcending Temporal Variance: Time-Specificity, Long Distance Performance and the Intersubjective Site Emily DiCarlo 15 Temporal Experience in George Benjamin’s Sudden Time Martin Scheuregger IndexReviewsAuthor InformationArkadiusz Misztal, Ph.D. (2007), University of Gdańsk, is Professor in American Studies at that university. He has published work on contemporary fiction, narrative theory, and the philosophy of time, including Time and Vision Machines in Thomas Pynchon’s Novels (Lang, 2019). Paul A. Harris, Ph.D. (1991), University of California, Irvine, is Professor of English at Loyola Marymount University. He has published work on interdisciplinary study of time, literary theory, and geo-humanities, including the co-authored book Contemporary Viewing Stone Display (VSANA, 2020). Jo Alyson Parker, Ph.D. (1989), University of California, Irvine, is Professor Emerita of English at Saint Joseph’s University in Philadelphia. She has published essays on time and narrative, including in the works of Kate Atkinson, David Mitchell, and Tom Stoppard, and the book Narrative Form and Chaos Theory in Sterne, Proust, Woolf, and Faulkner. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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