That Rarefied Amalgam of Time” – Tracing the Temporal in Mike McCormack’s Solar Bones
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8865133 |
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| Authors | Thomas Gurke (0000-0003-2877-3163, German, Nordic, Slavic and Dutch, University of Minnesota College of Liberal Arts, Minneapolis, MN, USA, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 104 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 612-627 |
| Publication date | 2023-03-16 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | English Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0013-838X • E-ISSN: 1744-4217 |
| Publisher | Routledge (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/0013838x.2023.2179202 |
| OpenAlex | W4327571823 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 12 |
Mike McCormack’s Solar Bones entails various time-discourses which the following will trace: (I) The Temporal Trace as Form and Imprint by which the text itself leaves an iconic mark of the configuration of space into the novel’s narrative time. (II) The Temporal Trace as Content and Stream through which the text accounts for the fact that it is not bound to any human notion of time. And, finally, (III) The Temporal Trace as Experience which aims at elucidating the experiential time of the reading process. Utilising Paul Ricœur’s thoughts in Time and Narrative (Vol. 1–3, 1988), I will analyse and read these notions of time with and against Ricœur’s integration of phenomenological time, the interplay of trace as well as the various forms of mimesis introduced in his work. Solar Bones traces multiple temporalities that make it necessary to partially reconceptualise the visceral nature of experiencing time in literary texts
Aesthetics · Art · Epistemology · Linguistics · Literature · Narrative · Reading (process · Temporalities · Temporality · Tracing · Visual arts · Computer Science · Hermeneutics and Narrative Identity · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition · Narrative Theory and Analysis · History · Philosophy
| Highly cited | No |
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