Modernism and Time Machines / / Charles M. Tung.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Complete eBook-Package 2019
• VerfasserIn: Tung, Charles M.,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]; ©2019
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: Edinburgh Critical Studies in Modernist Culture : ECCSMC
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (264 p.) :; 13 B/W illustrations 8 colour illustrations
• 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
• 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.

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"