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"Temporalities presents a concise critical introduction to the treatment of time throughout literature. Time and its passage represent one of the oldest and most complex philosophical subjects in art of all forms, and Russell West-Pavlov explains and interrogates the most important theories of temporality across a range of disciplines. The author explores temporality's relationship with a diverse range of related concepts, including: - historiography - psychology - gender - economics - postmodernism - postcolonialism. Russell West-Pavlov examines time as a crucial part of the critical theories of Newton, Freud, Ricoeur, Benjamin, and explores the treatment of time in a broad range of texts, ranging from the writings of St. Augustine and Sterne's Tristram Shandy, to Woolf's Mrs Dalloway and Stoppard's Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead. This comprehensive and accessible guide establishes temporality as an essential theme within literary and cultural studies today"-- Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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This book, published in the series The New Critical Idiom by Routledge, tops the category of abstract concepts. Because, is there something more elusive than ‘time’ or ‘temporality’? The classic reference is always to Augustine (5th century) who wrote: “What then is time? If no one asks me, I know what it is. If I wish to explain it to him who asks, I do not know”. The author of this study, Russel West-Pavlov, hasn’t been put of by this dilemma. He is a professor of literature studies in various places in Germany, but also in South Africa and Australia, and belongs to the Critical School, of Marxist origin, specialized in what is called ‘Subaltern Studies’: the post-colonial and post-imperialist view from the South to the Western world.
It is therefore not surprising that West-Pavlov in this book on temporality is very critical of the concept of absolute, universal and homogeneous time forced upon the world by Western modernity. He contrasts this Western concept with the many other forms of temporality that still exist or that have been repressed by that universal temporality. His analysis is erudite and enormously synthetic, but at the same time - how could it be otherwise - very abstract. What particularly appealed to me is that he approaches the concept of temporality in particular from systemic thinking. At the same time, his analysis also contains somewhat simplistic assumptions, and his final conclusion remains very vague. For a full review, see my History-account on Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3139941316. ( )