Temporalities

Temporalities presents a concise critical introduction to the treatment of time throughout literature._x000D_ Russell West-Pavlov examines time as a crucial part of the critical theories of Newton, Freud, Ricoeur, Benjamin, and through related concepts, such as psychology, gender and postmodernism._x000D_ The author also explores representations 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._x000D_ This comprehensive and accessible guide establishes temporality as an essential theme within literary and cultural studies.