Temporalities, Texts, Ideologies - by Bobby Xinyue (Hardcover)

About the Book

"Temporalities, Texts, Ideologies provides a new analysis of the significance of time in Classical and early modern literature, demonstrating that literary temporality continually intervenes in questions of ontology, hierarchy, and politics. Examining a diverse range of texts from Homeric epic to eighteenth-century poems on the Last Judgement, this collection of essays contends that temporality in literature is not merely a matter of storytelling, but sits at the heart of how authors from antiquity through to the early modern period understood and negotiated the structures that shaped their lives and may shape lives to come"--

Book Synopsis

Temporalities, Texts, Ideologies provides a new analysis of the significance of time in Classical and early modern literature, demonstrating that literary temporality continually intervenes in questions of ontology, hierarchy and politics. Examining a diverse range of texts from Homeric epic to eighteenth-century poems on the Last Judgement, this collection of essays contends that temporality in literature sits at the heart of how authors from antiquity through to the early modern period understood and negotiated the structures that shaped their lives and may shape lives to come.

Review Quotes

A stimulating set of reflections on time as it is crafted and conceived across a range literary and philosophical genres. This is a book made to last.

About the Author

Bobby Xinyue is British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Warwick, UK. His research is on Latin literature of the Augustan age and its reception in the early modern period. He has published journal articles and book-chapters on Cicero, Virgil and Propertius, as well as on Renaissance Latin poets such as Battista Mantovano. He has recently co-edited Reflections and New Perspectives on Virgil's Georgics (Bloomsbury, 2019); and is currently one of the series editors for the Bloomsbury Neo-Latin Series. His current research project examines the reception of Ovid's Fasti in the Renaissance.