"This interdisciplinary volume of essays explores how the notion of time varies across disciplines by examining variance as a defining feature of temporalities in cultural, creative, and scholarly contexts. Featuring a President's Address by philosopher David Wood, it begins with critical reassessments of J.T. Fraser's hierarchical theory of time through the lens of Anthropocene studies, philosophy, ecological theory, and ecological literature; proceeds to variant narratives in fiction, video games, film, and graphic novels; and concludes by measuring time's variance with tools as different as incense clocks and computers, and by marking variance in music, film, and performance art"--
An interdisciplinary exploration of the theme of variance in concepts of time in the humanities, sciences, and social sciences.
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| Introduction |
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PART 1 Variations on J. T. Fraser's Hierarchical Theory of Time |
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1 President's Address: Time in Variance |
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3 From the Biotemporal to the Ecotemporal in Atilio Caballero's La ultima playa |
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4 Founder's Lecture: Is Time Out of Joint? Or at a New Threshold? Reflections on the Temporality of Climate Change |
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5 Slow Time: The Suspension of a Tension |
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PART 2 Variant Narratives |
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6 Temporal Otherness and the "Gifted Child" in Fiction |
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7 The Seductive Quality of Variable Time in Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim |
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8 In the Forest of Realities: Impossible Worlds in Film and Television Narratives |
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9 "Out of Repetition Comes Variation": Varying Timelines, Invariant Time, and Dolores's Glitch in Westworld |
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10 Time in Variance and Time's Invariance in Richard McGuire's Here |
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PART 3 Measuring Time's Variance |
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11 Variance in Time Morphologies in Production and Consumption of Incense in Medieval Japan |
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12 Understanding Computation Time: A Critical Discussion of Time as a Computational Performance Metric |
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13 Variations of Narrative Temporalities in John Farrow's 1948 Film The Big Clock |
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14 Transcending Temporal Variance: Time-Specificity, Long Distance Performance and the Intersubjective Site |
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15 Temporal Experience in George Benjamin's Sudden Time |
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Arkadiusz Misztal, Ph.D. (2007), University of Gdask, is Professor in American Studies at that university. He has published work on contemporary fiction, narrative theory, and the philosophy of time, including Time and Vision Machines in Thomas Pynchons Novels (Lang, 2019).
Paul A. Harris, Ph.D. (1991), University of California, Irvine, is Professor of English at Loyola Marymount University. He has published work on interdisciplinary study of time, literary theory, and geo-humanities, including the co-authored book Contemporary Viewing Stone Display (VSANA, 2020).
Jo Alyson Parker, Ph.D. (1989), University of California, Irvine, is Professor Emerita of English at Saint Josephs University in Philadelphia. She has published essays on time and narrative, including in the works of Kate Atkinson, David Mitchell, and Tom Stoppard, and the book Narrative Form and Chaos Theory in Sterne, Proust, Woolf, and Faulkner.
