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Zusatztext A stimulating set of reflections on time as it is crafted and conceived across a range literary and philosophical genres. This is a book made to last. Informationen zum Autor Bobby Xinyue is Lecturer in Roman Culture at King's College London, UK, and a co-editor of the Bloomsbury Neo-Latin Series. Klappentext 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. Vorwort This volume offers a new understanding of ancient and early modern literary figurations of time as a mode of delineating, confronting, and critiquing the systems and frameworks that structure life. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Contributors Introduction, Bobby Xinyue (King's College London, UK) Part I. The Presence of Time 1. Dialectic at a Standstill: Homer, Image and the Nature of Temporality, Ahuvia Khane (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland) 2. Historical Ontology, Texts and Interpretation: Protagorean Reflections, Duncan Kennedy (University of Bristol, UK) 3. Roman Temporalities of Presence, James Ker (University of Pennsylvania, USA ) Part II. 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, Anke Walter (University of Newcastle, UK) 5. The Apotheosis of Time: Challenging Tradition a...
