RT Journal Article
T1 Deleuzean Time and the Elemental Rhythms of Nature in Joan Lindsay’s "Picnic at Hanging Rock" (1967)
A1 Valls Oyarzun, Eduardo
AB ABSTRACT: The present article offers a Deleuzian reading of “Picnic at Hanging Rock” (Joan Lindsay, 1967) that does not start by analysing binary oppositions, but rather construes the space and, more specifically, its synthesis in and through time as processes of “different/ ciation” and “becoming”. The article probes into Deleuze’s idea of the first synthesis of time in the novel. Time can be read as a synthesis, a contraction of differences in repetition. This resonates with the “elemental rhythms” of nature the novel overtly identifies as constitutive of the natural space. These rhythms are in turn projected onto different fictional levels, so much so that the novel reads like an organic spread of the patterns of nature into the very structure of the narrative. Victorian identities and cultures attempt to resist the spread of this pattern, albeit to no avail. Finally, the spread of the said pattern reveals the possibility of a new virtual set of relational tools for the self to encounter the other via processes of different/ciation and becoming.
PB Routledge, Taylor and Francis Group
SN 0013-838X
YR 2022
FD 2022
LK https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/116450
UL https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/116450
LA eng
NO Valls Oyarzun, Eduardo. 2022. “Deleuzian Time and the Elemental Rhythms of Nature in Joan Lindsay’s Picnic at Hanging Rock (1967).” English Studies 103 (1): 113–37. doi:10.1080/0013838X.2021.2021673.
NO This work was supported by the research group Contextos Literarios de la Modernidad (Complutense University of Madrid Research Group, ref. 941542).
DS Docta Complutense
RD 8 abr 2025