The fascination with unknown time
Intro -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Editors and Contributors -- List of Figures -- Chapter 1 Time in the Making: Why All the Fuss About Time? On Time, the Unknown, and Fascination -- Time and the Unknown -- Ways of Time-Making -- The Fascination with Unknown Time -- Roadmap: To Boldl...
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| Format: | E-Book |
| Sprache: | English |
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Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan,
2017
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| Schlagworte: | Time--Sociological aspects Time Time in literature Time in motion pictures |
| Umfang: | 1 Online-Ressource (306 pages) |
| Zusammenfassung: | Intro -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Editors and Contributors -- List of Figures -- Chapter 1 Time in the Making: Why All the Fuss About Time? On Time, the Unknown, and Fascination -- Time and the Unknown -- Ways of Time-Making -- The Fascination with Unknown Time -- Roadmap: To Boldly Go Where no WoMan Has Gone Before -- Bibliography -- Part I Past Futures -- Chapter 2 The Old Made New: Medieval Repurposing of Prophecies -- Bibliography -- Chapter 3 'Wunschzeit' Jerusalem: Rethinking the Distinction Between Time and Space in Medieval Utopias -- 'No-Place-Land' and 'Neverland' -- Wunschräume and Wunschzeiten-Scholarship on Medieval Utopias -- Wunschzeit Jerusalem -- Conclusion: Unknown Time and the Transcendence of Reality -- Bibliography -- Chapter 4 Living on the Edge of Time: Temporal Patterns and Irregularities in Byzantine Historical Apocalypses -- The Chronology of Apocalyptic Time -- Calculations of the Date of the Apocalypse -- The Sequence of Future Events -- The Typological Structure of Apocalyptic Time -- Massacre of the Innocents Typology -- Exodus Typology -- Flood Typology -- Christological Typologies -- The Speed of Apocalyptic Time -- Narrative Speed -- The Shortening of Days -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Chapter 5 Unknown or Uncertain? Astrologers, the Church, and the Future in the Late Middle Ages -- Medieval Thinking and the Future: A Very Short Introduction -- Astrologers and the Future: Claims and Limitations -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Chapter 6 'From the Unknown to the Known and Backwards:' Representing and Presenting Remote Time in Nineteenth-Century Palaeontology -- The Destructive Power of Geological Time -- Representing the Fossil Record as Monuments of Remote Time -- Tables, Diagrams, Graphs, and Patterns: Presenting the Fossil Record in the Flow of Unknown Time -- Conclusion -- Bibliography Part II Unknown Presents -- Chapter 7 Introducing Time to Ethnographic Displays: Narrative Strategies of Revealing the Unknown in German Ethnological Museums -- Introducing Time -- Case Studies: Totem's Sound and Foreign Exchange -- Narrative Strategies of Introducing Collection History to the Ethnographic Museum -- Multi-Perspectivity and Subjectivity -- Irony -- Ambiguity -- Conclusion: Narrative Strategies of Introducing Unknown Time -- Bibliography -- Chapter 8 "God's Time Is the Best:" The Fascination with Unknown Time in Urban Transport in Lagos -- Introduction -- Riding on Slogans: Lagos and the Interface Between Time -- The Possibility of Unknown Time -- "God Moves with His Own" -- "No Loss. No Lack. No Limitation" -- "No Condition Is Permanent" -- The Turn to "Juju" -- Conclusion -- Appendix: List of Vehicle Slogans -- Bibliography -- Chapter 9 Perpetual Wanderers-Timeless Heroes: Gypsies in European Musical Culture -- Gypsies Transgressing Boundaries of Space and Time -- The Portrait of Gypsies in Musical Stage Works: Eternal Wanderers -- Gypsies in Operas, Operettas, and Ballets: The Conception of Time -- Gypsies, Songs, and Lyrics -- Musical Language of So-Called Gypsy Compositions and the Principle of Suddenness -- Why 'Gypsy' Compositions Became so Popular -- Bibliography -- Chapter 10 The Present: An 'Unknown Time' in the German Kaiserreich around 1900 -- Modern Times: Nothing but Accelerated? -- Experiencing Present Time(s): Synchronisation versus Pluralisation -- Present Time(s) and Americanisation -- Bibliography -- Part III Future Pasts -- Chapter 11 The Time-Image and the Unknown in Wong Kar-wai's Film Art -- The Movement-Image and the Time-Image -- The Crisis of the Movement-Image: Wong's Urban Love Tales -- From Movement-Image to Time-Image: The 2046 Trilogy -- The Unknown Future: Happy Together -- Bibliography Chapter 12 Suspense in the Cinema: Knowledge and Time -- "When I Think of My Wife, I Always Think of Her Head": Gone Girl -- On Cinema and Psychoanalysis -- Knowledge and Suspense -- Anamorphosis of Time -- Bibliography -- Chapter 13 Futurology, Allegory, Time Travel: What Makes Science Fiction Fascinating -- Bibliography -- Index |
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| Beschreibung: | 1 Online-Ressource (306 pages) |
| ISBN: | 9783319664385 3319664387 9783319664378 3319664379 |