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Modernism and Time Machines / Charles M. Tung.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Edinburgh Critical Studies in Modernist Culture : ECCSMCPublisher: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2022]Copyright date: ©2019Description: 1 online resource (264 p.) : 13 B/W illustrations 8 colour illustrationsContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781474431330
  • 9781474431354
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 823.909384
LOC classification:
  • PR830.T5 T86 2019
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
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
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"
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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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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"

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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