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Dead Time

Temporal Disorders in the Wake of Modernity (Baudelaire and Flaubert)

Autor: Elissa Marder

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Editura: Stanford University Press

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This book explores how modernity gives rise to temporal disorders when time cannot be assimilated an...

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Autor

Elissa Marder

Limbă

engleză

Legare

Carte - Copertă tare

Publicat

2002

Pagini

240

EAN

9780804740715

ISBN

0804740712

Enbook ID

04717231

Editura

Stanford University Press

Greutate

490

Dimensiuni

159 x 237 x 13

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This book explores how modernity gives rise to temporal disorders when time cannot be assimilated and integrated into the realm of lived experience. Inspired by Walter Benjamin s description of the shock experience of modernity through readings of Baudelaire, the book turns to Baudelaire and Flaubert in order to derive insights into the many temporal disorders (such as trauma, addiction, and fetishism) that pervade contemporary culture. Through close readings of Baudelaire s Flowers of Evil and Flaubert s Madame Bovary, Elissa Marder argues that these nineteenth-century texts can, paradoxically, make us aware of aspects of present-day life that are not easily described or perceived. Following reflections by Benjamin, Jameson, and Lyotard, she shows that the ability to measure time increases in inverse proportion to the human ability to express it and create meaning through it. Although we have increased our ability to record events, we have become collectively less able to assimilate the experience of the very events that new technologies enable us to record. The literary articulations of addiction and fetishism in Baudelaire and Flaubert reveal that these temporal disorders can be understood structurally as expressions of an inability to live in time. At a psychic level, they can be read as attempts to ward off increased stimuli and unwanted aspects of reality by stopping time.