File spoon-archives/phillitcrit.archive/phillitcrit_1998/phillitcrit.9810, message 31


Date: Wed, 28 Oct 1998 16:05:41 -0500 (EST)
From: David Langston <dlangsto-AT-mcla.mass.edu>
Subject: Re: PLC: temporality without sequence



Some possible titles might serve the purpose.

The Daughter of Time by Josephine Tey
I seem to remember that Irish Murdoch wrote a novel with the phrase, Momento 
Mori in the title but the libraries I query don't return a title like
this so my recollection may be flawed.

If we are talking about temporality without progressive sequence
then I would think any of a number of texts which work with the
interweaving of memory from moments in the past or anticipations
of the future might work with your set of categories.  Eliot's
"Four Quartets" comes to mind.....plus dozens of other modernist
texts which construct temporality as a  collection of disjointed moments
which are granted causal agency by the remembering mind.

Now that I think of it, that is almost a definition of Foucault's
_The Order of Things_ or his _Archaeology of knowledge_.
                         David Langston
                         Mass College


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