Includes bibliographical references (pages 325-346) and index.
Contents:
'End of the End of the Line' : the broken temporality of David Foster Wallace's Infinite jest / Stefano Ercolino. Mary Chestnut's epic time / Julia Stern -- 'I read my mission as 'twere a book' : temporality and form in the early African American serial sketch tradition / Derrick Spires -- 'At the time of that look': the problems with simultaneity in the testimony at Salem / Nan Goodman -- Bad timing : indigenous reception and American literary style / Angela Calcaterra -- AndreĢ, theatricality, and the time of revolution / Jonathan Elmer -- Shakers, not movers : the physiopolitics of Shaker dance / Elizabeth Freeman -- And per se and : time and tempo in 'The masque of the red death' / Geoffrey Sanborn -- The late forever : queer temporality in the poems of Frank Bidart, D. A. Powell and Richard Siken / Marta Figlerowicz -- DeLillo, slowing down / Mark Goble -- Rhyming times : the architecture of progressive time and simultaneity in Richard McGuire's Here / Stefanie Sobelle -- The tone of time : specious presence and the Jamesian sentence / Jesse Matz -- Mediterraneans of the Americas : going anti-imperial, comparatively / Susan Gillman -- Faulkner's Light in August and new theories of novelistic time / Dorothy J. Hale -- 'End of the End of the Line' : the broken temporality of David Foster Wallace's Infinite jest / Stefano Ercolino.
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