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.

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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


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