How Soon Is Now?: Medieval Texts, Amateur Readers, and the Queerness of Time

desire can reveal a temporally multiple world in the now

I offer them as provocations that will, I hope, help readers of How Soon Is Now? to develop other frameworks and find other examples.

spatialization of time

The interrelations between desire, bodies, and the now create a broad framework for my concerns in this book.

Time is lived; it is full of attachments and desires, histories and futures; it is not a hollow form (not a “hatful of hollow”) that is the same always.

what is it, when is it, who gets to live in it, and who decides?

rigorously delimited scholarship from any other more explicitly affective enterprise.

times that are operant in the literature of the Middle Ages as well as the expansive now that can result from engagement with that literature.

now has no duration, so how can you talk about its being, how can it be said to exist at all?