This volume offers an important examination of the ways in which artistic manipulations of time can lead to a different perception of time as nonsynchronous and anti-chronological. The range of media (philosophical essays, film, plays, novels, autobiographical narratives) and periods (medieval, early modern, contemporary) explored here testify to the enduring significance of so-called «delays» and the need to rethink these as anachronies. The spectral presence of the notion of «Kairos» throughout this volume connects different attempts to subvert linear time, on occasion allowing events and temporalities to coexist and compete or, alternately, asking the mind to stretch itself and experience the uneasiness of time by attempting and failing to encompass diverse spaces and temporalities concomitantly. The resulting essays interrogate, test and contest the limits of the possible and enable a rethinking of what time could represent across disciplines and genres.

Ashwiny O. Kistnareddy is Bye-Fellow and Director of Studies in Medieval and Modern Languages at Lucy Cavendish College and Affiliated Lecturer in the MMLL Faculty at the University of Cambridge. She recently published a monograph, Migrant Masculinities in Women's Writing (2021). Alice Roullière is a Supernumerary Teaching Fellow in Early Modern French Literature at St John's College, Oxford. She teaches and researches French literature of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.

From the contents: The Woodward-Hoffmann Rules in Perspective.- Symmetry and Energy: Atoms and Atomic Orbitals.- Diatomic Molecules and their Molecular Orbitals.- Formation and Deformation of Polyatomic Molecules.- The Classical Thermal Reactions: Electrocyclic Reactions and Related Rearrangements.- Cycloadditions and Cycloreversions.- Degenerate Rearrangements.- Spin and Photochemistry: Electron Spin.- Excited State Reactions.- Into Inorganic Chemistry.