Sublime

spatialization of time

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

rigorously delimited scholarship from any other more explicitly affective enterprise.

present moment is more

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.

desire can reveal a temporally multiple world in the now

My broadest goal in this book is not only to explore but also to claim the possibility of a fuller, denser, more crowded now that all sorts of theorists tell us is extant but that often eludes our temporal grasp.

Queer, amateur: these are mutually reinforcing terms.