How Soon Is Now? - Medieval Texts, Amateur Readers, and the Queerness of Time

Informationen zum Autor Carolyn Dinshaw Klappentext In this volume, medievalist Carolyn Dinshaw offers a powerful critique of modernist temporal regimes through a revelatory exploration of queer ways of being in time as well as the potential queerness of time itself. Zusammenfassung In this volume! medievalist Carolyn Dinshaw offers a powerful critique of modernist temporal regimes through a revelatory exploration of queer ways of being in time as well as the potential queerness of time itself. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface ix Acknowledgments xvii Introduction. How Soon Is Now? 1 1. Asynchrony Stories: Monks, Kings, Sleepers, and Other Time Travelers 41 2. Temporally Oriented: The Book of John Mandeville, British India, Philology, and the Postcolonial Medievalist 73 3. In the Now: Margery Kempe, Hope Emily Allen, and Me 105 4. Out of Sync in the Catskills: Rip van Winkle, Geoffrey Crayon, James I, and Other Ghosts 129 Epilogue. The Lay of the Land: Amateur Medievalism and Queer Love in A Canterbury Tale 153 Notes 171 Bibliography 223 Index 245

Product details

• Authors: Carolyn Dinshaw, Dinshaw Carolyn
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 14.12.2012
• EAN: 9780822353539
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-5353-9
• No. of pages: 272
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies