Temporal Experiments

Bruce Barnhart is an associate professor of American literature and culture at the University of Oslo. He is the author of Jazz in the Time of the Novel: The Temporal Politics of American Race and Culture (2013). His work has appeared in African American Review, Callaloo, and Novel. His latest publication is "LeRoi Jones, Jazz, and the Resonance of Class" (Bloomsbury Handbook of Popular Music, 2020). His research interests include African American literature, post-Marxist theory, jazz, and Caribbean aesthetics. Marit Grøtta is professor of comparative literature at the University of Oslo. Her latest book is Baudelaire's Media Aesthetics: The Gaze of the Flâneur and 19th-Century Media (2015), and her latest essay "At the Door of the Theater: Kafka's Oklahama Theater and the Nature Theater Movement" (New German Critique 142, 2021). Her research interests are 19th-century and modernist literature, visual culture, photography, temporality, aesthetic theory, and critical theory.

Introduction: Aesthetic Approaches to Time, Part 1: Seven Temporal Experiments, 1. Event, or How Foucault Used Baudelaire to Enlighten Kant, 2. Habit, or the Matter of Time in Remainder, 3. Idleness, or How Raymond Queneau’s The Sunday of Life Explores Profane Time, in Playful Dialogue With Hegel and Kojève, 4. Kairos, or Figures of Instant Conversion in Crashaw’s Poem "To the Countess of Denbigh", 5. Rhythm, or How King Tubby Teaches Us to Love Nonbeing…, 6. Ritual, or How Time is Suspended, Dislocated, and Defied in Anne Carson’s Poem "The Glass Essay", 7. Transit, or To Cross the Line: Figures of Transition in Early Modern Tombs, Part 2: Seven Temporal Keywords: Theoretical Briefs, Event, Habit, Idleness, Kairos, Rhythm, Ritual, Transit