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Catching Time: Temporality, Interaction, and Cognition in the Novel book cover

1st Edition

Catching Time Temporality, Interaction, and Cognition in the Novel

By Isabelle Wentworth Copyright 2024
180 Pages
by Routledge

180 Pages
by Routledge

180 Pages
by Routledge
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'Time travels in divers paces with divers people.' Shakespeare’s oft-quoted line contains a hidden ambiguity: not only do individual people experience time differently, but time travels in diverse paces when we are with diverse persons. The line articulates a contemporary understanding of subjective time: it is changed by interaction with our social environment. Interacting with other people—and... Read more

Chapter 1. Introduction to Catching Time, Chapter 2. Lived and Literary Narratives: From Embodiment to Emplotment, Chapter 3. 'Body Time': Don DeLillo's The Body Artist, Chapter 4. The Flow of Time: Lía Chara’s Agua, Chapter 5. ‘Home wasn’t built in a day’: the Temporality of Place in Lisa Gorton’s The Life of Houses, Chapter 6. Bodies and Technologies: Martín Felipe Castagnet’s Los cuerpos del verano, Chapter 7. Postface

Biography

Isabelle Wentworth is an early-career researcher in literary studies. She has a Ph.D. in cognitive literary criticism from the University of NSW. Her work has been published in a range of journals of literary criticism and cognitive science. Catching Time is her first monograph.

“A clear, poignant, and expansive contribution to understanding temporality in literature, Catching Time brings neuroscience, literature, cultural studies, environmental studies, and object studies together into the now.” Sam Kolodezh, University of California, San Diego

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