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Temporalities, Texts, Ideologies provides a new analysis of the significance of time in Classical and early modern literature, demonstrating that literary temporality continually intervenes in questions of ontology, hierarchy and politics. Examining a diverse range of texts from Homeric epic to eighteenth-century poems on the Last Judgement, this collection of essays contends that temporality in literature sits at the heart of how authors from antiquity through to the early modern period understood and negotiated the structures that shaped their lives and may shape lives to come.
Approaching the topic through four themes, the essays in this volume highlight the ways in which time is construed as relational, contestable and politically inflected. The authors show that variations in temporalities enable texts to critique the interactions or tensions between tradition and change, agency and determinism, social system and individual experience. The result is a refreshing approach to literary figurations of time that responds to the recent 'temporal turn' in the humanities, engages with current critical trends (such as ontological analysis and ecological criticism), and opens up an exciting new direction for future research on the connection between time, text, and context.
Approaching the topic through four themes, the essays in this volume highlight the ways in which time is construed as relational, contestable and politically inflected. The authors show that variations in temporalities enable texts to critique the interactions or tensions between tradition and change, agency and determinism, social system and individual experience. The result is a refreshing approach to literary figurations of time that responds to the recent 'temporal turn' in the humanities, engages with current critical trends (such as ontological analysis and ecological criticism), and opens up an exciting new direction for future research on the connection between time, text, and context.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half-Title Page
- Title Page
- Contents
- List of Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Part One The Presence of Time
- 1 Dialectic at a Standstill: Homer, Image and the Nature of Temporality
- 2 Historical Ontology, Texts and Interpretation: Protagorean Reflections
- 3 Roman Temporalities of Presence
- Part Two Time, Space and Relations in Greek Literature
- 4 ‘. . . how you first went over the earth’: Interactions of Human and Divine Time in the Homeric Hymn to Apollo
- 5 The Apotheosis of Time: Challenging Tradition and Anachronism in Pherecydes’ Heptamychos
- 6 Pindar and the Nature of Contemplation
- Part Three Temporal Patterns and the Politics of Latin Literature
- 7 Rivers as the Embodiment of Disrupted Time: Ovid’s Metamorphoses, Ecological Chronotopes and the Apocalypse
- 8 More than a Lifetime: Temporal Patterns in Roman Biography – Nepos, Tacitus, Suetonius
- 9 Short Long / Long Short: Brevity, Power and Epigrammatic Temporality
- Part Four The End of Time
- 10 The Day of Reckoning: Seneca’s Epistolary Time
- 11 Engendering the Christian Age: Ovid’s Fasti and the Annunciation in Renaissance Poetic Calendars
- 12 Respice finem: Fast-Forwarding to the End of Time in Lucretius, Virgil, Ovid, Milton and Early Eighteenth-Century Poems on the Last Judgement
- Bibliography
- Index of Passages
- General Index
- Copyright