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A Question of Time: American Literature from Colonial Encounter to Contemporary Fiction

Weinstein, Cindy (2018) A Question of Time: American Literature from Colonial Encounter to Contemporary Fiction. Cambridge University Press , Cambridge. ISBN 9781108525510. https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechAUTHORS:20180827-091729110

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Abstract

This book brings together leading critics in American literature to address the representation of time throughout a wide range of genres, methodologies, and chronological periods. American literature, from its beginnings to the present, provides a particularly rich set of texts to examine in this regard, with its interest in history, modernity and progress. Each essay considers how time embeds itself in a variety of textual representations, including Native American rituals, Shaker dances, novels, poetry, and magazines in order to provide readers with a capacious view of time's constitutive role in American literature. The essays are organized into four sections - Materializing Time, Performing Time, Timing Time, and Theorizing Time. Each section reflects a particular approach to the question of time, but taken as a whole the volume makes visible unexpected temporal patterns that cut across time period and genre.


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Additional Information:© 2018 Cambridge University Press.
Subject Keywords:American Studies, Area Studies, American Literature, Literature
Record Number:CaltechAUTHORS:20180827-091729110
Persistent URL:https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechAUTHORS:20180827-091729110
Official Citation:Weinstein, C. (Ed.). (2018). A Question of Time: American Literature from Colonial Encounter to Contemporary Fiction. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Usage Policy:No commercial reproduction, distribution, display or performance rights in this work are provided.
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Deposited By: Tony Diaz
Deposited On:27 Aug 2018 16:42
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