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Author:   Arkadiusz Misztal ,  Paul A. Harris ,  Jo Alyson Parker
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Brill
Volume:   17
Weight:   0.696kg
ISBN:  

9789004470163

ISBN 10:   9004470166
Pages:   326
Publication Date:   23 September 2021
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Acknowledgements 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 Index

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Arkadiusz 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.

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