Time

“All in all, the twenty contributions collected in the volume stand as an ambitious and rewarding discussion, which encourages the reader to rethink the problem of time in contemporary theory and art practices.” (Kronoscope) “The many writings in this book make clear that time studies are thriving.” (Library Journal) “Arriving at a moment in which there is a need for new frameworks around temporality, historicity, and memory,Timeoffers a rich and beautiful mapping of the concept of & time, showing where we have come from in our thinking, but more importantly, where we are headed. A true intellectual gem.” - Amir Eshel,author of Futurity: Contemporary Literature and the Quest for the Past “New critical discourses about time—what Joel Burges and Amy J. Elias allude to as the ‘postmillennial emergence of time studies’ in their introduction to Time—challenge this linearity and the methods related to it. Centered in studies of contemporary literature and art, the new temporalities dismantle the teleology of linear chronology and reconceive time as multidimensional and multiplicitous.” - Susan Stanford Friedman, PMLA “Time: A Vocabulary of the Present is an outstanding and cohesive collection filled with insights and provocations. It will merit frequent re-readings from a number of perspectives as time studies continues to evolve as a multi-disciplinary field…[The] volume represents an important step toward developing new and more critical ways of thinking about time” - David Sigler, ariel: A Review of International English Literature

Joel Burges is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Rochester, where he is also affiliated with Film and Media Studies, Digital Media Studies, and the Graduate Program in Visual and Cultural Studies.

Amy J. Elias is Professor of English at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville and author of Sublime Desire: History and Post-1960s Fiction (2001) and co-editor of The Planetary Turn: Relationality and Geoaesthetics in the 21st Century (2015). She is the founding president of A.S.A.P.: The Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present.