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Book SynopsisTime holds an enduring fascination for humans. Time and Trace investigates the human experience and awareness of time and time’s impact on a wide range of cultural, psychological, and artistic phenomena, from reproductive politics and temporal logic to music and theater, from law to sustainability, from memory to the Vikings. The volume presents selected essays from the 15th triennial conference of the International Society for the Study of Time from the arts (literature, music, theater), history, law, philosophy, science (psychology, biology), and mathematics. Taken together, they pursue the trace of time into the past and future, tracing temporal processes and exploring the traces left by time in individual experience as well as culture and society. Contributors are: Michael Crawford, Orit Hilewicz, Rosemary Huisman, John S. Kafka, Erica W. Magnus, Arkadiusz Misztal, Carlos Montemayor, Stephanie Nelson, Peter Øhrstrøm, Jo Alyson Parker, Thomas Ploug, Helen Sills, Lasse C. A. Sonne, Raji C. Steineck, and Frederick Turner.
Table of ContentsINTRODUCTION ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Time and Traction: Blazing the Trail, Frederick Turner I. NARRATIVE TRACING: THE WORK OF CRITICISM The Chaotic Trace: Stoppard’s Arcadia and the Emplotment of the Past, Jo Alyson Parker Beyond the Forensic Imagination: Time and Trace in Thomas Pynchon’s Novels, Arkadiusz Misztal Time, Trace, and Movement in Stravinsky’s Three Japanese Lyrics, Helen Sills Tracing Space in Time: Morton Feldman’s Rothko Chapel, Orit Hilewicz II. LOOKING BACK: TRACING HISTORY Traces of Viking-Age Temporal Organization, Lasse C. A. Sonne Time and Memory in the Odyssey and Ulysses, Stephanie Nelson Time, Cognition, and Attic Performance: Tracing a New Approach to Theatre History’s “Vexing Question”, Erica W. Magnus III. THOUGHT TRACES: PHILOSOPHY, MEMORY, AND THE HUMAN MIND A. N. Prior’s Ideas on Keeping Track of Branching Time, Peter Øhrstrøm and Thomas Ploug Psychoanalysis and the Temporal Trace, John S. Kafka Memory: Epistemic and Phenomenal Traces, Carlos Montemayor IV. LEAVING TRACES: SOCIETY AND ETHICS Heredity in the Epigenetic Era: Are we Facing a Politics of Reproductive Obligations?, Michael Crawford The Trace of Time in Judicial Reasoning: A Case of Conflicting Argument in the High Court of Australia (Al-Kateb v. Godwin, 2004), Rosemary Huisman Time, Waste, and Enlightenment, or: On Leaving no Trace, Raji C. Steineck CONTRIBUTORS INDEX
