Modernism and Time Machines / / Charles M. Tung.
Bridging modernist studies and science fiction scholarshipModernism 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 c...
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Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Complete eBook-Package 2019 |
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Place / Publishing House: | Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022] ©2019 |
Year of Publication: | 2022 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Edinburgh Critical Studies in Modernist Culture : ECCSMC
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (264 p.) :; 13 B/W illustrations 8 colour illustrations |
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Other title: | Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- FIGURES -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- SERIES EDITORS’ PREFACE -- INTRODUCTION: MODERNISM, TIME MACHINES AND THE DEFAMILIARISATION OF TIME -- 1 THE HETEROCHRONIC PAST AND SIDEWISE HISTORICITY: T. S. ELIOT, PABLO PICASSO AND MURRAY LEINSTER -- 2 ALTERNATE HISTORY AND THE PRESENCE OF OTHER PRESENTS: VIRGINIA WOOLF, PHILIP K. DICK AND CHRISTOPHER NOLAN -- 3 TIME LAGS AND DIFFERENTIAL PACE: BULLET TIME, WILLIAM FAULKNER AND JESSICA HAGEDORN -- 4 TEMPORAL SCALE, THE FAR FUTURE AND INHUMAN TIMES: FORESIGHT IN WELLS AND WOOLF, TIME TRAVEL IN OLAF STAPLEDON AND TERRENCE MALICK -- CONCLUSION -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX |
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Summary: | Bridging modernist studies and science fiction scholarshipModernism 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.Key FeaturesDraws on insights from a range of sources, including critical geography, postcolonial theory, science and technology studies and time studiesExamines different kinds of objects together: SF, Impressionism, and Henri Lefebvre’s rhythmanalysis; evolutionary biology, Eliot’s The Waste Land, and Leinster’s Sidewise in Time"; Woolf, Philip K. Dick’s alternate history, and the films Interstellar and Tree of Life" |
Format: | Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. |
ISBN: | 9781474431354 9783110780420 |
DOI: | 10.1515/9781474431354?locatt=mode:legacy |
Access: | restricted access |
Hierarchical level: | Monograph |
Statement of Responsibility: | Charles M. Tung. |