Time in Variance /

Time in Variance / / edited by Arkadiusz Misztal, Paul A. Harris, Jo Alyson Parker.

This interdisciplinary volume of essays explores how the notion of time varies across disciplines by examining variance as a defining feature of temporalities in cultural, creative, and scholarly contexts. Featuring a President's Address by philosopher David Wood, it begins with critical reasse...

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Superior document:The Study of Time ; 17
TeilnehmendeR:
Harris, Paul A.,
Parker, Jo Alyson,
Misztal, Arkadiusz,
Place / Publishing House:Leiden; , Boston : : BRILL,, 2022.
Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
Series:The Study of Time ; 17.
Physical Description:1 online resource.
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Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgements
  • List of Illustrations
  • Notes on Contributors
  • Introduction
  • Paul A. Harris, Arkadiusz Misztal, and Jo Alyson Parker
  • part 1: Variations on J. T. Fraser's Hierarchical Theory of Time
  • 1 President's Address: Time in Variance
  • Raji C. Steineck
  • 2 Out of Plato's Cave
  • Steve Ostovich
  • 3 From the Biotemporal to the Ecotemporal in Atilio Caballero's La última playa
  • Lucia Cash Beare
  • 4 Founder's Lecture: Is Time Out of Joint? Or at a New Threshold? Reflections on the Temporality of Climate Change
  • David Wood
  • 5 Slow Time: The Suspension of a Tension
  • Paul A. Harris
  • part 2: Variant Narratives
  • 6 Temporal Otherness and the "Gifted Child" in Fiction
  • Adam Barrows
  • 7 The Seductive Quality of Variable Time in Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
  • Sue Scheibler
  • 8 In the Forest of Realities: Impossible Worlds in Film and Television Narratives
  • Sonia Front
  • 9 "Out of Repetition Comes Variation": Varying Timelines, Invariant Time, and Dolores's Glitch in Westworld
  • Jo Alyson Parker and Thomas Weissert
  • 10 Time in Variance and Time's Invariance in Richard McGuire's Here
  • Arkadiusz Misztal
  • part 3: Measuring Time's Variance
  • 11 Variance in Time Morphologies in Production and Consumption of Incense in Medieval Japan
  • Vroni Ammann
  • 12 Understanding Computation Time: A Critical Discussion of Time as a Computational Performance Metric
  • David Harris-Birtill and Rose Harris-Birtill
  • 13 Variations of Narrative Temporalities in John Farrow's 1948 Film The Big Clock
  • Raphaëlle Costa de Beauregard
  • 14 Transcending Temporal Variance: Time-Specificity, Long Distance Performance and the Intersubjective Site
  • Emily DiCarlo
  • 15 Temporal Experience in George Benjamin's Sudden Time
  • Martin Scheuregger
  • Index.

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