Modernism and time machines / Charles M. Tung
- Author
- Tung, Charles M.
- Published
- Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2019.
- Physical Description
- 1 online resource (xi, 248 pages, 4 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations (some color).
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- Series
- 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.
- Summary
- 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 effects and insights that go beyond the exhilarations of simply sliding back and forth in history. Together the modernist time-obsession and the fantasy of moving in time help us to rethink the shapes of time, the consistency of timespace and the nature of history.
- Subject(s)
- 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
- Genre(s)
- ISBN
- 9781474431354 (electronic bk.)
1474431356 (electronic bk.)
147443133X
9781474431330
1474465048
9781474465045 - Bibliography Note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-241) and index.
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