How Soon Is Now?: Medieval Texts, Amateur Readers, and the Queerness of Time

by Carolyn Dinshaw

How Soon Is Now? performs a powerful critique of modernist temporal regimes through its revelatory exploration of queer ways of being in time as well as of the potential queerness of time itself. Carolyn Dinshaw focuses on medieval tales of asynchrony and on engagements with these medieval temporal worlds by amateur readers centuries later. In doing so, she illuminates forms of desirous, embodied being that are out of sync with ordinarily linear...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822353679
• ISBN13: 9780822353676
• Release Date: December 2012
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.88 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.1"