Sonia Front

Time in Twenty-First-Century British and American Literature

Out of Sync

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book investigates representations of time in twenty first century Anglo American literature. In the digital era, characterized by a new regime of time, fiction offers revisions of prevalent, oppressive notions of time that can serve as productive political strategies to reclaim the agency of the subject. This book discusses literary texts that craft innovative temporal structures out of sync with the new time logic: suspended temporality (Chapter 1); time as a conflation of phenomenological experience and cosmological laws (Chapter 2); previewing the future (Chapter 3); and networked memory (Chapter 4). The proposed politically productive temporalities, such as deep presence or resonance, compatibilism, contingency, and the use of narrative as a chronologizing strategy, ground a vision of change and suggest a way out of the crisis of time. Identifying new timeframes in twenty first century fiction by an array of writers, this book demonstrates that literature remains a validmedium for theorizing and representing time.

Produktdetails

• Routledge Studies in Contemporary Literature
• Verlag: Taylor & Francis; Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 206
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Juni 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 402g
• ISBN-13: 9781041006459
• ISBN-10: 1041006454
• Artikelnr.: 73395295

Autorenporträt

Sonia Front is Professor in the Institute of Literary Studies, University of Silesia in Katowice, Poland. She teaches literature and media studies. Her research interests include time and temporality as well as representations of consciousness in twenty¿first¿century literature, film, and television. Her previous monograph is titled Shapes of Time in British Twenty¿First Century Quantum Fiction. She is the Vice President of the International Society for the Study of Time.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
Introduction: Representations of Time in Twenty-First-Century
Anglo-American Literature
Chapter 1: Time Suspended
Chapter 2: Temporal Consciousness
Chapter 3: Memory of the Future
Chapter 4: Networked Memory
Conclusion: The Chronometer of Literature
Index

Rezensionen

Time in Twenty-First-Century British and American Literature: Out of Sync is a thought-provoking addition to the study of time in modern Anglo-American literature. Offering an overview of contemporary processes and scales, from the epoch of the Anthropocene to the periodisation of Western history, the accelerated hour of industrialisation, and the atomization of the digital, the monograph diagnoses crises and ruptures in our concepts of time. This wide lens opens up the temporal logic of late capitalism and how this has come to shape, and been shaped by, literary representations.

--Isabelle Wentworth, University of Wollongong, Australia