Autorentext

Shaj Mathew is Assistant Professor of English at Hunter College, City University of New York. He is a literary theorist working across Persian, Turkish, Spanish, and English. The Dialectic of Cosmopolitan Time is his first book. Canvassing literature, philosophy, and cinema, his scholarship appears in PMLA, MLQ, Modernism/modernity, Philosophy and Literature, the ACLA State of the Discipline Report, and New Literary History, the latter of which awarded him the 2020 Ralph Cohen Prize.

Inhalt

• Introduction: Nonsecular Criticism

• 1: The Idealist-Spiritualist Critique of Materialist Modernity: The Argument in Miniature (in Iran)

• 2: Ekphrastic Temporality

• 3: The Multiple Simultaneous Temporalities of Global Modernity: Pamuk, Tanp nar, Proust

• 4: Beyond East and West: Anachronic Istanbul

• 5: Transcending Eurochronology in the Louvre Abu Dhabi

• Coda: After "Mental Gallicism"