A Day's Time
The One-Day Novel and the Temporality of the Everyday
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5003680 |
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| Authors | Bryony Randall (0000-0001-5502-1296, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2016 |
| Volume | 47 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 591-610 |
| Publication date | 2016-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | New Literary History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0028-6087 • E-ISSN: 1080-661X |
| Publisher | Project MUSE (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1353/nlh.2016.0031 |
| OpenAlex | W2176697373 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 6 |
This essay presents an investigation of the one-day-ness of the one-day novel—to ask what the effects of this temporal frame, in literary form, might be. I approach this question largely through the developing critical field of everyday life studies, in particular on literature and the everyday. There is a surprising paucity of literary criticism focused specifically on the narrative of the single day, and in this essay I launch further discussions of the form, particularly insofar as instances of the one-day novel can also (paradoxically) be read as novels of the everyday. In particular, I argue the one-day novel offers a model for a narrative that operates at a graspably human scale, having a particular capacity to reveal, attend to, and explore the apparently nonproductive or passive elements of everyday life; and that the form also interrogates on the capacity (or otherwise) for individuals to assert agency therein. Finally, I explore the paradoxical future orientation of the apparently bounded and closed single-day narrative structure
Aesthetics · Agency (philosophy) · Art · Criticism · Day to day · Epistemology · Everyday life · Field (mathematics) · Literature · Narrative · Social science · Sociology · Temporality · Contemporary Literature and Criticism · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Nostalgia and Consumer Behavior · Philosophy
| Highly cited | No |
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