Time in Variance

Erscheinungsjahr 2021
ISBN: 978-90-04-47016-3
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 17, 326 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 696 g

Reihe: The Study of Time

This interdisciplinary volume of essays explores how the notion of time varies across disciplines by examining variance as a defining feature of temporalities in cultural, creative, and scholarly contexts. Featuring a President’s Address by philosopher David Wood, it begins with critical reassessments of J.T. Fraser’s hierarchical theory of time through the lens of Anthropocene studies, philosophy, ecological theory, and ecological literature; proceeds to variant narratives in fiction, video games, film, and graphic novels; and concludes by measuring time’s variance with tools as different as incense clocks and computers, and by marking variance in music, film, and performance art.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Misztal, Arkadiusz

A Harris, Paul

Parker, Jo Alyson

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Zeitmessung: Physikalische und Technische Aspekte
• Naturwissenschaften Astronomie Zeiterfassung, Chronologie
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Zeit: Philosophische, Psychologische, Soziale Aspekte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements

List of Illustrations

Notes on Contributors

Introduction

Paul A. Harris, Arkadiusz Misztal, and Jo Alyson Parker

part 1: Variations on J. T. Fraser’s Hierarchical Theory of Time

1 President’s Address: Time in Variance

Raji C. Steineck

2 Out of Plato’s Cave

Steve Ostovich

3 From the Biotemporal to the Ecotemporal in Atilio Caballero’s La última playa

Lucia Cash Beare

4 Founder’s Lecture: Is Time Out of Joint? Or at a New Threshold? Reflections on the Temporality of Climate Change

David Wood

5 Slow Time: The Suspension of a Tension

Paul A. Harris

part 2: Variant Narratives

6 Temporal Otherness and the “Gifted Child” in Fiction

Adam Barrows

7 The Seductive Quality of Variable Time in Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim

Sue Scheibler

8 In the Forest of Realities: Impossible Worlds in Film and Television Narratives

Sonia Front

9 “Out of Repetition Comes Variation”: Varying Timelines, Invariant Time, and Dolores’s Glitch in Westworld

Jo Alyson Parker and Thomas Weissert

10 Time in Variance and Time’s Invariance in Richard McGuire’s Here

Arkadiusz Misztal

part 3: Measuring Time’s Variance

11 Variance in Time Morphologies in Production and Consumption of Incense in Medieval Japan

Vroni Ammann

12 Understanding Computation Time: A Critical Discussion of Time as a Computational Performance Metric

David Harris-Birtill and Rose Harris-Birtill

13 Variations of Narrative Temporalities in John Farrow’s 1948 Film The Big Clock

Raphaëlle Costa de Beauregard

14 Transcending Temporal Variance: Time-Specificity, Long Distance Performance and the Intersubjective Site

Emily DiCarlo

15 Temporal Experience in George Benjamin’s Sudden Time

Martin Scheuregger

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Arkadiusz Misztal, Ph.D. (2007), University of Gdansk, is Professor in American Studies at that university. He has published work on contemporary fiction, narrative theory, and the philosophy of time, including Time and Vision Machines in Thomas Pynchon’s Novels (Lang, 2019).

Paul A. Harris, Ph.D. (1991), University of California, Irvine, is Professor of English at Loyola Marymount University. He has published work on interdisciplinary study of time, literary theory, and geo-humanities, including the co-authored book Contemporary Viewing Stone Display (VSANA, 2020).

Jo Alyson Parker, Ph.D. (1989), University of California, Irvine, is Professor Emerita of English at Saint Joseph’s University in Philadelphia. She has published essays on time and narrative, including in the works of Kate Atkinson, David Mitchell, and Tom Stoppard, and the book Narrative Form and Chaos Theory in Sterne, Proust, Woolf, and Faulkner.