Time in Variance

Arkadiusz Misztal, Ph.D. (2007), University of Gdańsk, is Professor in American Studies at that university. He has published work on contemporary fiction, narrative theory, and the philosophy of time, including Time and Vision Machines in Thomas Pynchon’s Novels (Lang, 2019). Paul A. Harris, Ph.D. (1991), University of California, Irvine, is Professor of English at Loyola Marymount University. He has published work on interdisciplinary study of time, literary theory, and geo-humanities, including the co-authored book Contemporary Viewing Stone Display (VSANA, 2020).Jo Alyson Parker, Ph.D. (1989), University of California, Irvine, is Professor Emerita of English at Saint Joseph’s University in Philadelphia. She has published essays on time and narrative, including in the works of Kate Atkinson, David Mitchell, and Tom Stoppard, and the book Narrative Form and Chaos Theory in Sterne, Proust, Woolf, and Faulkner.

• AcknowledgementsList of IllustrationsNotes on ContributorsIntroductionPaul A. Harris, Arkadiusz Misztal, and Jo Alyson Parkerpart 1: Variations on J. T. Fraser’s Hierarchical Theory of Time1 President’s Address: Time in VarianceRaji C. Steineck2 Out of Plato’s CaveSteve Ostovich3 From the Biotemporal to the Ecotemporal in Atilio Caballero’s La última playaLucia Cash Beare4 Founder’s Lecture: Is Time Out of Joint? Or at a New Threshold? Reflections on the Temporality of Climate ChangeDavid Wood5 Slow Time: The Suspension of a TensionPaul A. Harrispart 2: Variant Narratives6 Temporal Otherness and the “Gifted Child” in FictionAdam Barrows7 The Seductive Quality of Variable Time in Elder Scrolls V: SkyrimSue Scheibler8 In the Forest of Realities: Impossible Worlds in Film and Television NarrativesSonia Front9 “Out of Repetition Comes Variation”: Varying Timelines, Invariant Time, and Dolores’s Glitch in WestworldJo Alyson Parker and Thomas Weissert10 Time in Variance and Time’s Invariance in Richard McGuire’s HereArkadiusz Misztalpart 3: Measuring Time’s Variance11 Variance in Time Morphologies in Production and Consumption of Incense in Medieval JapanVroni Ammann12 Understanding Computation Time: A Critical Discussion of Time as a Computational Performance MetricDavid Harris-Birtill and Rose Harris-Birtill13 Variations of Narrative Temporalities in John Farrow’s 1948 Film The Big ClockRaphaëlle Costa de Beauregard14 Transcending Temporal Variance: Time-Specificity, Long Distance Performance and the Intersubjective SiteEmily DiCarlo15 Temporal Experience in George Benjamin’s Sudden TimeMartin ScheureggerIndex