Timescapes of Waiting
Brill (Verlag)
978-90-04-40695-7 (ISBN)
Timescapes of Waiting explores the intersections of temporality and space by examining various manifestations of spatial (im-)mobility. The individual articles approach these spaces from a variety of academic perspectives – including the realms of history, architecture, law and literary and cultural studies – in order to probe the fluid relationships between power, time and space.
The contributors offer discussion and analysis of waiting spaces like ante-chambers, prisons, hospitals, and refugee camps, and also of more elusive spaces such as communities and nation-states.
Contributors: Olaf Berwald, Elise Brault-Dreux, Richard Hardack, Kerstin Howaldt, Robin Kellermann, Amanda Lagji, Margaret Olin, Helmut Puff, Katrin Röder, Christoph Singer, Cornelia Wächter, Robert Wirth.
Christoph Singer is assistant professor in the Department of British Literary and Cultural Studies at the University of Paderborn. He published on representations of shorelines as liminal spaces, conceptions of Middlebrow and Early Modern Literature and Culture. Currently he is working on a project entitled A History of Solitude: (Post-)Modernist Narratives of Waiting and Delay. Robert Wirth is a Research Associate at the Department of English and American Studies of the University of Paderborn, Germany, lecturing in English language and British cultural studies. His primary research interests lie in the field of Scottish literature, politics and culture, with a main focus on the utilisation of history and nostalgia in contemporary political campaigning. Together with Cornelia Wächter he is co-editor of Complicity and the Politics of Representation (2019). Olaf Berwald Olaf Berwald is Professor of German Studies and Department Chair of Foreign Languages at Kennesaw State University, US. His has published on Melanchthon, Peter Weiss, Max Frisch, modernist aesthetics and religion, and on creative collaborations between Latin American and German writers.
Acknowledgements
List of Illustrations
Notes on Contributors
Introduction
Christoph Singer, Robert Wirth and Olaf Berwald
1 Waiting in the Antechamber
Helmut Puff
2 Waiting for Railways (1830–1914)
Robin Kellermann
3 Waiting for the Man: Deferring and Spatialising Legal and Narrative Delay
Richard Hardack
4 Dickens, Reade and Galsworthy on Waiting in Solitary Confinement
Cornelia Wächter
5 The Camp as Extra-Temporal Space in E.C. Osondu’s “Waiting” and Dinaw Mengestu’s “An Honest Exit”
Christoph Singer
6 “The Waiting Must End”: Waiting for Im/Possible Events in Dave Eggers’s A Hologram for the King
Kerstin Howaldt
7 Absurd Waiting in Samuel Beckett and Zakes Mda: Wartestellen and Revolutionary Waiting
Amanda Lagji
8 Waiting as Resistance: Confined Spaces in Broch and Weiss
Olaf Berwald
9 Scotland: a Nation-State in Waiting
Robert Wirth
10 How Long Will Handala Wait? A Ten-Year-Old Barefoot Refugee Child on Palestinian Walls
Margaret Olin
11 When Boredom Meets Fear: Waiting in Philip Larkin’s “The Building”
Elise Brault-Dreux
12 Waiting in Sickrooms and Victorian Houses: Virginia Woolf’s “On Being Ill”
Katrin Röder
Index
| Erscheinungsdatum | 17.09.2019 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Spatial Practices ; 31 |
| Verlagsort | Leiden |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 155 x 235 mm |
| Gewicht | 532 g |
| Themenwelt | Kunst / Musik / Theater |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
| ISBN-10 | 90-04-40695-6 / 9004406956 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-90-04-40695-7 / 9789004406957 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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