medieval texts, amateur readers, and the queerness of time /
First Statement of Responsibility
Carolyn Dinshaw.
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.
Durham, NC :
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
Duke University Press,
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
2012.
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item
xix, 251 pages :
Other Physical Details
illustrations ;
Dimensions
24 cm
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-244) and index.
CONTENTS NOTE
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Asynchrony stories : monks, kings, sleepers, and other time travelers -- Temporally oriented : the book of John Mandeville, British India, philology, and the postcolonial medievalist -- In the now : Margery Kempe, Hope Emily Allen, and me -- Out of sync in the Catskills : Rip van Winkle, Geoffrey Crayon, James I, and other ghosts.
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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"How Soon Is Now? performs a powerful critique of modernist temporal regimes through its revelatory exploration of queer ways of being in time as well as of the potential queerness of time itself. Carolyn Dinshaw focuses on medieval tales of asynchrony and on engagements with these medieval temporal worlds by amateur readers centuries later. In doing so, she illuminates forms of desirous, embodied being that are out of sync with ordinarily linear measurements of everyday life, that involve multiple temporalities, that precipitate out of time altogether. Dinshaw claims the possibility of a fuller, denser, more crowded now that theorists tell us is extant but that often eludes our temporal grasp."--Page 4 of cover.