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Comparative Modernism and Poetics of Time

Bergson, Tanpinar, Benjamin, Walser

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Authors:
  1. Özen Nergis Dolcerocca

    1. University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy

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  • Provides a detailed and extensive treatment of the works of prominent modernists
  • Provocatively rereads the history of modernist aesthetics by introducing the concept of anti-chronometry
  • Discusses modernist fiction in Turkish as a distinct aesthetic and cultural formation

Part of the book series: New Comparisons in World Literature (NCWL)

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Table of contents (6 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-ix
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  2. Introduction: Transnational Modernism, Comparative Methodologies, and Theories of Time on the World Literary Stage

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    Pages 1-31

  3. Philosophy of Time

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 33-33
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    2. Bergson, Modernity, and Philosophy of Time in Fin-de-Siècle Europe

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      Pages 35-61

  4. Chronometrics in the Modern Capital: The City, the Past, and Collective Memory

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 63-63
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    2. Chronometrics in the Modern Capital: Walter Benjamin’s Fairy Tale

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      Pages 65-90

    3. Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar’s Istanbul

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      Pages 91-122

  5. The Literary Clock and Chronophobia

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      Pages 123-123
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    2. Chronostasis: Critique of Managed Existence in The Time Regulation Institute

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      Pages 125-179

    3. The Clockwork Language: Temporal and Linguistic Modernity in Robert Walser’s The Assistant

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      Pages 181-209

  6. Back Matter

    Pages 211-224
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About this book

This book explores the conceptualization of time in early twentieth-century literature and thought, based on a transnational and translational model of literary history, focusing on Turkish, French and German literary traditions. Each from different cultural backgrounds, these modernists provide a radical critique of modern time regimes, which calibrate time in singular temporal narratives. The book traces the philosophical strand of this critical chronometry from Henri Bergson’s theory of time, through Walter Benjamin’s ambivalence towards decay of tradition, and finally to A.H. Tanpınar and Robert Walser’s modernist fiction. Negotiating regionally marked concepts and topoi of temporality, it discusses networks of cultural circulations and maps a revised intersection of Turkish and Western European literary histories. It is an essential read for scholars and students of comparative and world literature, modernist studies, and cultural history. 

Authors and Affiliations

  • University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy

    Özen Nergis Dolcerocca

About the author

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Özen Nergis Dolcerocca is Associate Professor in the Department of Modern Languages, Literatures and Cultures at the University of Bologna, Italy. She holds a PhD in Comparative Literature from NYU and is the principal investigator of the ERC Starting Grant project ‘Modernizing Empires: Enlightenment, Nationalist Vanguards and Non-Western Literary Modernities’. Her research focuses on literary theory, comparative literature, modernism, nineteenth-century cultural history, narratology, and digital humanities. 

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