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1 online resource. |
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polychrome |
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text file |
| Series |
The study of time,
0170-9704 ;
v. 14
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Study of time ; v. 14.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction / Raji Steineck and Claudia Clausius -- SECTION I. Origins Explained -- Founder's Lecture: The Origin of the Integrated Study of Time / J.T. Fraser -- The Search for Origins as Detective Story : Detecting Datelines and The Mystery of Origins / Paul A. Harris -- On the Social Origin of Time in Language / Walter Schweidler -- The Origins of Language and Narrative Temporalities / Rosemary Huisman -- SECTION II. From Future to Origin : Temporal Inversions and Asymmetries -- Narrative Fiction : Writing towards the Origin / Sabine Gross -- Origins as Futures in the Time Plays of J.B. Priestley / Carol Fischer -- Big Science : Marching Forward to the Past / Michael Crawford -- The Past-Future Asymmetry / Friedel Weinert -- SECTION III. Futures Opened, Futures Closed -- The Human Temporal Condition between Memory and Hope / Steven Ostovich -- Bachelard's "Discontinuous Bergsonism" in Zora Neale Hurston's "Sweat" : How Self-Generation of "Pure Time" Engenders Free Choice / Patricia Engle -- Tales of Time and Terror : Walter Benjamin's Philosophy of History and the Narrative Aesthetics of Edgar Allan Poe / Marcus Bullock -- The Future of August 6th, 1945 : A Case of the "Peaceful Utilization" of Nuclear Energy in Japan / Masae Yuasa -- Forgiveness as the Opening of the Future / Karmen MacKendrick. |
| Summary |
Origins and Futures: Time Inflected and Reflected offers an interdisciplinary approach to two fundamental often opposing concepts of time. The volume features both research on specific texts and authors as well as conceptual disciplinary reflections in the spirit of an integrated study of time. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Time -- Social aspects.
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Time -- Social aspects. |
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Time -- History.
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Time. |
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History. |
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Time -- Philosophy.
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Time -- Philosophy. |
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Culture -- Origin.
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Culture -- Origin. |
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Life -- Origin.
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Life -- Origin. |
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Future, The.
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Future, The. |
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Time in literature.
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Time in literature. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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| Added Author |
Steineck, Raji C.
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Clausius, Claudia.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Origins and futures. Leiden : Brill, 2013 9789004251687 (DLC) 2013011074 (OCoLC)842111807 |
| ISBN |
9789004252004 (electronic book) |
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9004252002 (electronic book) |
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9789004251687 |
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9004251685 |
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