Time and Trace: Multidisciplinary Investigations of Temporality

Sabine Gross is Professor of German at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She has published widely on aesthetics, narratology, literature (18th century through contemporary), the reading process, image-text relations, theatre, time, and perception. Steve Ostovich, Ph.D. (1986), Marquette University, is Professor and Chair of the Philosophy Department at the College of St. Scholastica in Duluth, Minnesota, USA. He publishes in the areas of political theology, German studies, critical theory, and educational reform.

• INTRODUCTION ACKNOWLEDGEMENTSTime and Traction: Blazing the Trail, Frederick TurnerI. NARRATIVE TRACING: THE WORK OF CRITICISMThe Chaotic Trace: Stoppard’s Arcadia and the Emplotment of the Past, Jo Alyson ParkerBeyond the Forensic Imagination: Time and Trace in Thomas Pynchon’s Novels, Arkadiusz MisztalTime, Trace, and Movement in Stravinsky’s Three Japanese Lyrics, Helen SillsTracing Space in Time: Morton Feldman’s Rothko Chapel, Orit HilewiczII. LOOKING BACK: TRACING HISTORYTraces of Viking-Age Temporal Organization, Lasse C. A. SonneTime and Memory in the Odyssey and Ulysses, Stephanie NelsonTime, Cognition, and Attic Performance: Tracing a New Approach to Theatre History’s “Vexing Question”, Erica W. MagnusIII. THOUGHT TRACES: PHILOSOPHY, MEMORY, AND THE HUMAN MINDA. N. Prior’s Ideas on Keeping Track of Branching Time, Peter Øhrstrøm and Thomas PlougPsychoanalysis and the Temporal Trace, John S. KafkaMemory: Epistemic and Phenomenal Traces, Carlos MontemayorIV. LEAVING TRACES: SOCIETY AND ETHICSHeredity in the Epigenetic Era: Are we Facing a Politics of Reproductive Obligations?, Michael CrawfordThe Trace of Time in Judicial Reasoning: A Case of Conflicting Argument in the High Court of Australia (Al-Kateb v. Godwin, 2004), Rosemary HuismanTime, Waste, and Enlightenment, or: On Leaving no Trace, Raji C. SteineckCONTRIBUTORSINDEX