Timescapes of waiting : spaces of stasis, delay and deferral / / Christoph Singer.
Timescapes of Waiting explores the intersections of temporality and space by examining various manifestations of spatial (im-)mobility. The individual articles approach these spaces from a variety of academic perspectives – including the realms of history, architecture, law and literary and cultural...
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| Superior document: | Spatial Practices; volume31 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Leiden Boston : : Brill | Rodopi,, 2019. |
| Year of Publication: | 2019 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Spatial Practices;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (250 pages) |
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Table of Contents:
- Front Matter
- Copyright
- Acknowledgements
- Notes on Contributors
- Introduction / Christoph Singer, Robert Wirth and Olaf Berwald
- Waiting in the Antechamber / Helmut Puff
- Waiting for Railways (1830–1914) / Robin Kellermann
- Waiting for the Man: Deferring and Spatialising Legal and Narrative Delay / Richard Hardack
- Dickens, Reade and Galsworthy on Waiting in Solitary Confinement / Cornelia Wächter
- The Camp as Extra-Temporal Space in E.C. Osondu’s “Waiting” and Dinaw Mengestu’s “An Honest Exit” / Christoph Singer
- “The Waiting Must End”: Waiting for Im/Possible Events in Dave Eggers’s A Hologram for the King / Kerstin Howaldt
- Absurd Waiting in Samuel Beckett and Zakes Mda: Wartestellen and Revolutionary Waiting / Amanda Lagji
- Waiting as Resistance: Confined Spaces in Broch and Weiss / Olaf Berwald
- Scotland: A Nation-State in Waiting / Robert Wirth
- How Long Will Handala Wait? A Ten-Year-Old Barefoot Refugee Child on Palestinian Walls / Margaret Olin
- When Boredom Meets Fear: Waiting in Philip Larkin’s “The Building” / Elise Brault-Dreux
- Waiting in Sickrooms and Victorian Houses: Virginia Woolf’s “On Being Ill” / Katrin Röder
- Back Matter
- Index.