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

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

Dinshaw, Carolyn

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Medieval & Renaissance HistoryLiterary CriticismGLBTQIA Studies

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ISBN10: 0822353539
ISBN13: 9780822353539
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: Dec 14 2012
Pages: 272
Weight: 1.15
Height: 0.87 Width: 6.30 Depth: 9.37
Language: English
How Soon Is Now? performs a powerful critique of modernist temporal regimes through its revelatory exploration of queer ways of being in time as well as of the potential queerness of time itself. Carolyn Dinshaw focuses on medieval tales of asynchrony and on engagements with these medieval temporal worlds by amateur readers centuries later. In doing so, she illuminates forms of desirous, embodied being that are out of sync with ordinarily linear measurements of everyday life, that involve multiple temporalities, that precipitate out of time altogether. Dinshaw claims the possibility of a fuller, denser, more crowded now that theorists tell us is extant but that often eludes our temporal grasp.

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