Modernism and time machines /

Modernism and Time Machines places the fascination with time in canonical works of twentieth-century literature and art side-by-side with the rise of time-travel narratives and alternate histories in popular culture. Both modernism and this cardinal trope of science fiction produce a range of effect...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Tung, M. Charles (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2019.
Series:Edinburgh critical studies in modernist culture.
Subjects:
1900-1999
English fiction > 20th century > History and criticism.
American fiction > 20th century > History and criticism.
Time in literature.
Science fiction, English > History and criticism.
Science fiction, American > History and criticism.
Time travel in literature.
Roman anglais > 20e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Roman américain > 20e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Temps dans la littérature.
LAW > Constitutional.
American fiction
English fiction
Science fiction, American
Science fiction, English
Time in literature
Time travel in literature
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Modernism, time machines and the defamiliarisation of time
  • The heterochronic past and sidewise historicity : T.S. Eliot, Pablo Picasso and Murray Leinster
  • Alternat history and the presence of other presents : Virginia Woolf, Philip K. Dick and Christopher Nolan
  • Time lags and differential pace : bullet time, William Faulkner and Jessica Hagedorn
  • Temporal scale, the far future and inhuman times : foresight in Wells and Woolf, time travel in Olaf Stapledon and Terrence Malick.

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