...Tim Roberts Abstract Croup explores bodies, borders, binds, bonds. Copyright © 2012 Regents of the University of Colorado 2012 T im Ro b e r t s 1 19 Shaping the I: Caroline Bergvall's "Croup" T im R o b e r t s C rou p is a b re a th in g d iffic u lty accom panied by a dog- o r seal-like...

...Tim Dean; Robyn Wiegman Copyright © 2013 Regents of the University of Colorado 2013 W hat D oes C rit iq u e W a n t ? A C ritical Ex c h a n g e T im d e a n / R o b y n W ie g m a n W hile this special issue of ELN on "After Critique?" can be read as both a verdict and a demand...

...Anna Henchman Copyright © 2008 Regents of the University of Colorado 2008 H a r d y s C l i f f h a n g e r a n d N arrative T ime A nna H enchm an In his 1878 novel The Return o f the Native, Thomas Hardy depicts an instance of confu­ sion about the tim e that itself is on the verge o f...

...Russell Samolsky Copyright © 2008 Regents of the University of Colorado 2008 T h e Tim e Is O u t o f J o i n t : H a m l e t , M essianism , a n d th e S p e cte r o f A pocalypse RUSSELL SAMOLSKY I. Khaki Hamlets I w ant to begin this piece on the orders o f apocalyptic and messianic...

..., long tim e since I had a visit from either."1 It is one thing fo r the novel to describe this interval for an audience. It is another thing to make us experience for ourselves the "long, long tim e" elapsed since the endless Chancery suit drove away from her door all youthful bloom. Yet this is exactly...

... in the issue are already on the path. Hamlet, Russell Samolsky argues, encodes its own hermeneutic fu tu rity w ithin itself and thus activates a contest between apocalyptic and messianic tim e; in doing so, it exempts itself from a strictly Elizabethan relevance. Similarly, Julie Carr traces the critical...

... confusion has, ironically enough, likely seemed to many readers to describe the experience o f reading Bleak House. Reading the novel can be a dizzying process o f addition, if not m ultiplication, as over tim e there come to be tw o and three of everything, from Bleak Houses to Mrs. Bayham Badger's...

... into the realism o f the geologically sensitive present tense: " it is nearly three tim es the height of Flam borough, half as high again as the South Foreland, a hundred feet higher than Beachy Head the loftiest prom ontory on the east or south side o f this Island twice the height of St. Aldhelm's, thrice...

... that all poems are in some way or another "a b o u t" time. When m im etically focused, they chronicle experience, attempting either to reveal the workings of memory, as in Brian Henry's "M y Most Common Mode is Failure," or, as in Shira Dentz's "Let the Possum Go," attem pting to investigate lived-tim e...

... from the straitjacket strictures o f the neoclassical unities by an appeal to common sense. In our everyday processes of planning and remembering, Johnson remarks, "w e easily contract the tim e o f real actions'' projecting or recalling in a m om ent w hat w ill take (or has taken) many hours or days...

...Michele Speitz Copyright © 2008 Regents of the University of Colorado 2008 A u ra l Chiaroscuro: The Em ergency Radio B r o a d c a s t in O r s o n W e l l e s s Th e War of th e W o rlds M ic h e le S peitz Tim e determines the lim it o f all a r t,. . . Frederick Kittler, Gramophone...

... depicts a near fu tu re (1900) in w hich expectations o f ecclesiastical piety and social hierarchy in a still-Spanish Philippines are inverted through the technology o f the telephone. Rizal depicts the telephone as an im ­ mediate mediation between the m etropole and the colony at a tim e when...

...Caroline Levine Copyright © 2008 Regents of the University of Colorado 2008 READING AT THE TIME C a r o l in e L e v in e W hat does it mean to read a work of literature in its own tim e? It could mean making meaning by connecting the text to political, social, and intellectual debates going...

... discourse o f Radical reform? Do the Chartists represent the emergence of the future or the culm ination and expiration of the past?5 In this essay, I hope to show that a significant strand of Chartist agitation was oriented nei­ ther toward the past nor toward the future but to "the present day" as a tim e...

... that keeps them, paradoxically, untouched by duration. Giovanni, too, notes this temporality. Including David among the Americans, he comm ents on the American "sense o f tim e": "The Americans are funny. You have a funny sense o f tim e or perhaps you have no sense o f tim e at all, I can't tell...

... 4 8 ENGLISH LANGUAGE NOTES 4 6.1 SPRING / SUMMER 2 0 0 8 comes too late and too soon, belongs nowhere, but seems, as one critic put it, "everywhere w ith us."2 Then, of course, there are the facts of his publication. Hopkins was virtually unread in his tim e, was introduced to an am bivalent...

... and ethical consequences when people move on. The function of tim e in grief is im portant here because traum atic m em ory complicates a lin­ ear chronology of em otional progress. The second section o f the essay investigates these tem poral aspects of grief in relation to com m unal loss. It looks at how...

... relation to tim e and appearance. The discontinuity so com m only present in this literature easily allows the discontinuous to appear as its defining characteris­ tic. It is not surprising then that the critical assessment o f m odern literature should focus on this interruptive aspect as if its mere...

... that seem to organize and inflect tim e differently. The tem po ral experience and place th a t is m y particular concern here is the village/parish/natural w orld, which, in an attempt to synthesize the human and natural aspects o f the chronotope, I w ill call the "intensely-local." This is a location...

... humanities. That's not a necessary outcome, but its strong gravitational pull is evident in (for example) the several argum ents of Tim othy Clark, Adam Trexler, and A m itav Ghosh th a t fictional realism is pow ­ erless to engage the scale and disruptiveness of the Anthropocene.3 Second...