Comparative Modernism and Poetics of Time

​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.

• Chapter 1.- Introduction.- Part I: Philosophy of Time.-  Chapter 2- Bergson, The Politics of Time and Modernity.- Part II: Chronometrics in the Modern Capital: the City, the Past and Collective Memory.- Chapter 3 - Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar’s Istanbul.- Chapter 4- Chronometrics in the Modern Capital: Walter Benjamin’s Fairytale.- Part III: The Literary Clock and Chronophobia.- Chapter 5 - Chronostasis: Temporal Disorders and the Critique of Managed Existence in The Time Regulation Institute.- Chapter 6- The Clockwork Language: Temporal and Linguistic Modernity in Robert Walser’s The Assistant.- Chapter 7- Conclusion.