Adam Barrows
Biographic Data
| ID | 1484423 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Adam Barrows |
| GIVEN NAMES | Adam |
| FAMILY NAME | Barrows |
| SIGNATURE | BARROWS A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Carleton University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3463-9446 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Time and Identity in Ulysses and the Odyssey, written by Stephanie Nelson
“His Numbering Clock”
The image of a man turning into a clock has haunted literary and popular culture for the last four hundred years. This essay surveys the trope of the clockwork man from Shakespeare’s Elizabethan age to the modernist era and beyond. I explore two modernist examples of the trope, E. V. Odle’s The Clockwork Man (1923) and D. H. Lawrence’s Women in Love (1920), before turning to the postwar example of a DC comic book supervillain named the “Clock Kin…
Microdramas
Jesse Matz, Modernist Time Ecology
Spastic in Time”
The article demonstrates how the insights of literary critical disability studies can help to refocus our reading of Kurt Vonnegut’s 1969 novel, Slaughterhouse-Five, away from a diagnosis of the disability of its main character and toward an understanding of the ways in which the work disables normative assumptions about the social body and its functions. The novel’s “schizophrenic” temporal structure is not reflective of the temporality of menta…
Empire in Question
The Static Clock and the Old Manchild
This essay provides an overview of critical trends in the study of time in twentieth‐century African and Diasporic African fiction. The pervasive tendency in Western historiography to treat Africa as occupying a space outside the narrative of historical progress and development has produced a critical counter‐reaction which celebrates the unique cultural rhythms and incommensurable experiences of African temporality. According to this influential…
The Static Clock and the Old Manchild
This essay provides an overview of critical trends in the study of time in twentieth‐century African and Diasporic African fiction. The pervasive tendency in Western historiography to treat Africa as occupying a space outside the narrative of historical progress and development has produced a critical counter‐reaction which celebrates the unique cultural rhythms and incommensurable experiences of African temporality. According to this influential…
Empire in Question
Spastic in Time”
The article demonstrates how the insights of literary critical disability studies can help to refocus our reading of Kurt Vonnegut’s 1969 novel, Slaughterhouse-Five, away from a diagnosis of the disability of its main character and toward an understanding of the ways in which the work disables normative assumptions about the social body and its functions. The novel’s “schizophrenic” temporal structure is not reflective of the temporality of menta…
Jesse Matz, Modernist Time Ecology
Microdramas
Time and Identity in Ulysses and the Odyssey, written by Stephanie Nelson
“His Numbering Clock”
The image of a man turning into a clock has haunted literary and popular culture for the last four hundred years. This essay surveys the trope of the clockwork man from Shakespeare’s Elizabethan age to the modernist era and beyond. I explore two modernist examples of the trope, E. V. Odle’s The Clockwork Man (1923) and D. H. Lawrence’s Women in Love (1920), before turning to the postwar example of a DC comic book supervillain named the “Clock Kin…
Art (5 works) · Literature (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · History (3 works) · Narrative (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Archaeology (2 works) · Epistemology (2 works)