Background
Kemp, Anthony Maynard was born on April 14, 1956 in London. Son of Frederick George and Margaret Kemp. came to the United States, 1976.
(In this strikingly bold and original work, Kemp argues th...)
In this strikingly bold and original work, Kemp argues that the Western idea of time reversed itself between the fourteenth and the eighteenth century from a static and syncretic image of a temporal world in which all time is uniform, the past is the arbiter of truth and all inherited knowledge is eternally viable, and no secrets lie hidden in time waiting to be revealed to a future age; to a dynamic and supersessive model of history in which the past dispenses only ignorance and error. Kemp describes these two opposed historical worlds, these "time texts," and traces the transition between them, its mechanism, and its motivation, concluding by drawing out the epistemological consequences of supersessive history for the modern intellect.
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Kemp, Anthony Maynard was born on April 14, 1956 in London. Son of Frederick George and Margaret Kemp. came to the United States, 1976.
Bachelor in Religious Studies and Philosophy, Northeastern College, 1978. Master of Arts in English Literature, Drew University, 1981. Master of Philosophy in English and Comparative Literature, Columbia University, 1984.
Doctor of Philosophy in English and Comparative Literature, Columbia University, 1989.
Tutor, reader, research assistant, Columbia University, New York City, 1981-1983; editorial assistant, Columbia University Press, New York City, 1981-1982; research associate, Library. of America, New York City, 1983-1985; adjunct instructor, Pace U., New York City, 1994; teaching assistant, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1984-1988; assistant professor, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, 1988-1994; associate Professor of English, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, since 1994. Lecturer in field.
(In this strikingly bold and original work, Kemp argues th...)
Member Modern Language Association, American Comparative Literature Association.