TY - BOOK AU - Hägglund,Martin AU - Hägglund,Martin TI - Dying for Time: Proust, Woolf, Nabokov SN - 9780674067844 AV - PQ2631 U1 - 843/.912 PY - 2012/// CY - Cambridge PB - Harvard University Press KW - Nabokov, Vladimir Vladimirovich,-1899-1977.-Ada KW - Proust, Marcel,-1871-1922.-À la recherche du temps perdu KW - Woolf, Virginia,-1882-1941.-Mrs. Dalloway KW - Desire in literature KW - Psychoanalysis and literature KW - Time in literature KW - Electronic books N1 - Intro -- Contents -- Introduction: Of Chronolibido -- 1. Memory: Proust -- 2. Trauma: Woolf -- 3. Writing: Nabokov -- 4. Reading: Freud, Lacan, Derrida -- Conclusion: Binding Desire -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index N2 - Novels by Proust, Woolf, and Nabokov have been read as expressions of a desire to transcend time. Hägglund gives them another reading entirely: fear of time and death is generated by investment in temporal life. Engaging with Freud and Lacan, he opens a new way of reading the dramas of desire as they are staged in both philosophy and literature UR - https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/orpp/detail.action?docID=3301145 ER -