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100	1		_aSinger, Christoph.
245	1	0	_aTimescapes of Waiting : _bSpaces of Stasis, Delay and Deferral.
250			_a1st ed.
264		1	_aBoston : _bBRILL, _c2019.
264		4	_c©2019.
300			_a1 online resource (250 pages)
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
490	1		_aSpatial Practices Series ; _vv.31
505	0		_aHalf Title -- Series Information -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Illustrations -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Surveying the Field -- 3 Why Waiting Matters -- 4 Outline of This Collection -- References -- Chapter 1 Waiting in the Antechamber -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The Rise of the Antechamber -- 3 Waiting as Social Practice -- 4 Experiencing Waiting -- References -- Chapter 2 Waiting for Railways (1830-1914) -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Waiting Passengers: an Architectural and Operational Challenge -- 3 'Systemic Waiting' as a (New) Psychological Challenge -- 4 The Rise and Fall of Static Waiting: Structural Developments of Station Buildings and the Role of Waiting Rooms (1830-1914) -- 4.1 Pioneering and Exploration: 1830-1850 -- 4.2 Consolidation: 1850s -- 4.3 Sophistication: 1860-1890 -- 4.4 Banishing the 'Waiting Imperative': 1880-1914 -- 5 Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 3 Waiting for the Man: Deferring and Spatialising Legal and Narrative Delay -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Day Waiting, Die Waiting -- 3 Deferrals and Repetitions -- 4 A Long Spatialisation of Space -- 5 In Search of Lost Space -- 6 Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 4 Dickens, Reade and Galsworthy on Waiting in Solitary Confinement -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Historical Background -- 3 Waiting in Carceral Spacetime -- 4 Solitary Confinement Today -- References -- Chapter 5 The Camp as Extra-Temporal Space in E.C. Osondu's "Waiting" and Dinaw Mengestu's "An Honest Exit" -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Fleeing Is Waiting: Migration and Immobility -- 3 E.C. Osondu, "Waiting": the Camp from Indistinction to Imagination -- 4 Intertextuality and the Importance of Story Telling -- 5 Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 6 "The Waiting Must End": Waiting for Im/Possible Events in Dave Eggers's A Hologram for the King -- 1 Introduction.
505	8		_a2 Entanglements of 'Waiting', 'Im/Possible Events' and 'Space' -- 3 Waiting in Eventful/Less Spaces: A Hologram for the King -- 4 Conclusion: the Arrival as Non-Event -- References -- Chapter 7 Absurd Waiting in Samuel Beckett and Zakes Mda: Wartestellen and Revolutionary Waiting -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Doing Time: Imprisoning Godot -- 3 Revolutionary Waiting in Girls -- 4 Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 8 Waiting as Resistance: Confined Spaces in Broch and Weiss -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Waiting in Broch's The Death of Virgil -- 3 Voices from the Asylum in Weiss's Marat/Sade -- References -- Chapter 9 Scotland: A Nation-State in Waiting -- 1 Introduction -- 2 If at First You Do Not Succeed, Try, Try and Try Again -- 3 Good (or Bad) Things Come to Those Who Wait -- 4 'Ever Tried. Ever Failed. …'5 -- 5 '… No Matter. Try Again. …' -- 6 '… Fail Again. Fail Better.' -- 7 'Make Use of Time, Let Not Advantage Slip'15 -- 8 Hurry Up and Wait -- 9 Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 10 How Long Will Handala Wait? A Ten-Year-Old Barefoot Refugee Child on Palestinian Walls -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Handala and His Age Mates -- 3 Handala in a Wider Field -- References -- Chapter 11 When Boredom Meets Fear: Waiting in Philip Larkin's "The Building" -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Waiting in the "Building": an Organised Social Experience in a Liminal Zone -- 3 Subjective Experience of Duration -- 4 Awareness of the Inexperienceability of the Future -- 5 Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 12 Waiting in Sickrooms and Victorian Houses: Virginia Woolf's "On Being Ill" -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Woolf's Illness -- 3 The Illness Essay -- 4 "On Being Ill" -- 5 Conclusion -- References -- Index.
520			_aTimescapes of Waiting explores the intersections of temporality and space by examining various manifestations of spatial (im-)mobility. The articles approach these spaces perspectives - including such as history, architecture, law and literary and cultural studies.
588			_aDescription based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
590			_aElectronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
650		0	_aWaiting (Philosophy).
655		4	_aElectronic books.
700	1		_aWirth, Robert.
700	1		_aBerwald, Olaf.
776	0	8	_iPrint version: _aSinger, Christoph _tTimescapes of Waiting _dBoston : BRILL,c2019 _z9789004406957
797	2		_aProQuest (Firm)
830		0	_aSpatial Practices Series
856	4	0	_uhttps://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/orpp/detail.action?docID=5884283 _zClick to View
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