Literary Modernism, Queer Temporality Eddies in Time /

• Main Author: Haffey, Kate (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Subjects: Literature-Philosophy.; Literature, Modern-20th century.; Queer theory.; Literary Theory.; Twentieth-Century Literature.; Queer Theory.

This book explores the intersection between the recent work on queer temporality and the experiments of literary modernism. Kate Haffey argues that queer theory's recent work on time owes a debt to modernist authors who developed new ways of representing temporality in their texts. By reading a...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Introduction: Queer Moments and Eddies in Time
• 2. Exquisite Moments and the Temporality of the Kiss in Mrs. Dalloway and The Hours
• 3. "Still and Moving": Winterson, Eliot, and the Dance in Time
• 4. Telling Queer Tales: Narration and Genealogical Time in William Faulkner and Angela Carter
• 5. "Pure Child": The Temporality of Childishness in Sedgwick and Stein
• 6. Conclusion: Figuring the Future: Queer Time in Contemporary Literature.  .