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By Adam Barrows

Time, Literature and Cartography after the Spatial Turn argues that the spatial flip in literary reports has the unexplored strength to reinvigorate the ways that we comprehend time in literature.  Drawing on new readings of time in a number literary narratives, together with Vladimir Nabokov’s Ada and James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake, Adam Barrows explores literature’s skill to cartographically signify the dense and tangled rhythmic techniques that represent lived spaces.  utilizing the insights of ecological resilience reports, in addition to Henri Lefebvre’s past due paintings on rhythm to literary representations of time, this ebook deals a sustained exam of literature’s “chronometric imaginary”: its means to map the temporal relationships among the human and the non-human, the neighborhood and the global.

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