Literary Modernism, Queer Temporality: Eddies in Time
Files
Description
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 series of early twentieth-century literary texts from modernists like Woolf, Eliot, Faulkner, and Stein alongside contemporary authors, this book examines the way in which modernist writers challenged narrative conventions of time in ways that both illuminate and foreshadow current scholarship on queer temporality. In her analyses of contemporary novelists and critics Michael Cunningham, Jeanette Winterson, Angela Carter, and Eve Sedgwick, Haffey also shows that these modernist temporalities have been reconfigured by contemporary authors to develop new approaches to futurity.
ISBN
978-3-030-17300-5
Publication Date
2019
Publisher
Springer Nature
City
Berlin
Keywords
Modernist Literature, Queer Temporality, Text Analysis, Narrative
Disciplines
Literature in English, British Isles | Literature in English, North America | Queer Studies
Recommended Citation
Haffey, Kate, "Literary Modernism, Queer Temporality: Eddies in Time" (2019). English & Linguistics Books. 13.
https://scholar.umw.edu/elc_books/13