{"product_id":"how-soon-is-now-medieval-texts-amateur-readers-and-the-queerness-of-time-paperback","title":"How Soon Is Now?: Medieval Texts, Amateur Readers, and the Queerness of Time - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eCarolyn Dinshaw\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eHow Soon Is Now?\u003c\/i\u003e performs a powerful critique of modernist temporal regimes through its revelatory exploration of queer ways of being in time as well as of the potential queerness of time itself. Carolyn Dinshaw focuses on medieval tales of asynchrony and on engagements with these medieval temporal worlds by amateur readers centuries later. In doing so, she illuminates forms of desirous, embodied being that are out of sync with ordinarily linear measurements of everyday life, that involve multiple temporalities, that precipitate out of time altogether. Dinshaw claims the possibility of a fuller, denser, more crowded \u003ci\u003enow\u003c\/i\u003e that theorists tell us is extant but that often eludes our temporal grasp.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhether discussing Victorian men of letters who parodied the \u003ci\u003eBook of John Mandeville\u003c\/i\u003e, a fictionalized fourteenth-century travel narrative, or Hope Emily Allen, modern coeditor of the early-fifteenth-century \u003ci\u003eBook of Margery Kempe\u003c\/i\u003e, Dinshaw argues that these and other medievalists outside the academy inhabit different temporalities than modern professionals operating according to the clock. \u003ci\u003eHow Soon Is Now?\u003c\/i\u003e clears space for amateurs, hobbyists, and dabblers who approach medieval worlds from positions of affect and attachment, from desires to build other kinds of worlds. Unruly, untimely, they urge us toward a disorderly and asynchronous collective.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCarolyn Dinshaw is Professor of English, and Social and Cultural Analysis at New York University. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eGetting Medieval: Sexualities and Communities, Pre- and Postmodern\u003c\/i\u003e, also published by Duke University Press, and \u003ci\u003eChaucer's Sexual Poetics\u003c\/i\u003e. Dinshaw is a founding coeditor of \u003ci\u003eGLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 272\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.7 x 9.1 x 6.1 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e December 18, 2012\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52618723918131,"sku":"9780822353676","price":63.63,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/eGxnUndTaFN6L2g1VnJpUlZ0VE9IQT09.webp?v=1761908256","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/en-ca\/products\/how-soon-is-now-medieval-texts-amateur-readers-and-the-queerness-of-time-paperback","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}