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- catalog abstract "In poetic anthropology, fiction, or theoretical meditations on writing, Carol Jacobs contends, authors define their work in terms of a "lapse of time," both in consciousness and in conventions of representation. Texts often make reference to the past as their point of departure. But implicitly or explicitly there is a lunge into the future that radically reorders - or disorders - our concepts of writing. In this series of critical readings, Jacobs considers the ways in. Which time is the "condition of the telling" in works by Levi-Strauss, Ford Madox Ford, Lessing, Benjamin, de Man, Wordsworth, and Rilke. Despite the cultural and historical disparities among the texts, Jacobs argues, each is linked by a set of critical and theoretical issues concerning time and language. She examines how these writers situate their work in relation to the past, designating both their positions with respect to it and the implications of their pretensions. To write of it, and she considers how the endeavor of situating sometimes acquires particular names: apocalypse, in Levi-Strauss; impressionism, in Ford; allegorical commentary, in Lessing; pure language, in Benjamin; and that which is performed rather than named, in de Man, Wordsworth, and Rilke.".
- catalog contributor b3798187.
- catalog created "c1993.".
- catalog date "1993".
- catalog date "c1993.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1993.".
- catalog description "In poetic anthropology, fiction, or theoretical meditations on writing, Carol Jacobs contends, authors define their work in terms of a "lapse of time," both in consciousness and in conventions of representation. Texts often make reference to the past as their point of departure. But implicitly or explicitly there is a lunge into the future that radically reorders - or disorders - our concepts of writing. In this series of critical readings, Jacobs considers the ways in.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 207-239) and index.".
- catalog description "Prologue: Telling, Time -- 1. Architectures of Oblivion: Levi-Strauss's Tristes Tropiques -- 2. Poor Timing: The Critical Ford Madox Ford -- 3. The (too) Good Soldier, "a real story": Ford Madox Ford's The Good Soldier -- 4. Fictional Histories: Lessing's Laocoon -- 5. The Monstrosity of Translation: Walter Benjamin's "The Task of the Translator" -- 6. The Metaphor of Temporality: Paul de Man's Rousseau Essays and "The Rhetoric of Temporality" -- 7. The Unimaginable Touch of Time: Wordsworth's "Tintern Abbey," Crossing the Alps, and "Intimations of Immortality" -- 8. Time Mirrors: Rilke's Sonnets to Orpheus (II-3).".
- catalog description "To write of it, and she considers how the endeavor of situating sometimes acquires particular names: apocalypse, in Levi-Strauss; impressionism, in Ford; allegorical commentary, in Lessing; pure language, in Benjamin; and that which is performed rather than named, in de Man, Wordsworth, and Rilke.".
- catalog description "Which time is the "condition of the telling" in works by Levi-Strauss, Ford Madox Ford, Lessing, Benjamin, de Man, Wordsworth, and Rilke. Despite the cultural and historical disparities among the texts, Jacobs argues, each is linked by a set of critical and theoretical issues concerning time and language. She examines how these writers situate their work in relation to the past, designating both their positions with respect to it and the implications of their pretensions.".
- catalog extent "ix, 246 p. ;".
- catalog hasFormat "Telling time.".
- catalog identifier "0801844770 (hc : acid-free paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Telling time.".
- catalog issued "1993".
- catalog issued "c1993.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press,".
- catalog relation "Telling time.".
- catalog subject "801/.95 20".
- catalog subject "Criticism.".
- catalog subject "PN81 .J282 1993".
- catalog tableOfContents "Prologue: Telling, Time -- 1. Architectures of Oblivion: Levi-Strauss's Tristes Tropiques -- 2. Poor Timing: The Critical Ford Madox Ford -- 3. The (too) Good Soldier, "a real story": Ford Madox Ford's The Good Soldier -- 4. Fictional Histories: Lessing's Laocoon -- 5. The Monstrosity of Translation: Walter Benjamin's "The Task of the Translator" -- 6. The Metaphor of Temporality: Paul de Man's Rousseau Essays and "The Rhetoric of Temporality" -- 7. The Unimaginable Touch of Time: Wordsworth's "Tintern Abbey," Crossing the Alps, and "Intimations of Immortality" -- 8. Time Mirrors: Rilke's Sonnets to Orpheus (II-3).".
- catalog title "Telling time : Lévi-Strauss, Ford, Lessing, Benjamin, de Man, Wordsworth, Rilke / Carol Jacobs.".
- catalog type "text".