Charles M. Tung (Associate Professor of English at Seattle Universi

Modernism and Time Machines

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Edinburgh Critical Studies in Modernist Culture
• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. November 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 155mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 408g
• ISBN-13: 9781474431347
• ISBN-10: 1474431348
• Artikelnr.: 59415393

Autorenporträt

Charles M. Tung is currently an Associate Professor of English at Seattle University. His publications have appeared in ASAP/Journal, Modernism/Modernity, Configurations, and Symploke.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
List of Figures
Introduction: Modernism, Time Machines, and the Defamiliarization of Time
1. The Heterochronic Past and Sidewise Historicity: Pablo Picasso, T. S.
Eliot, and Murray Leinster
2. Alternate History and the Presence of Other Presents: Virginia Woolf,
Philip 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 Terence Malick
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index