Modernism and time machines:

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. Both modernism and this cardinal trope of science fiction produce a range of effect...

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Main Author: Tung, Charles M. ca. 20./21. Jh (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Edinburgh Edinburgh University Press 2019
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Summary: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. 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
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Modernism, time machines and the defamiliarisation of time -- The heterochronic past and sidewise historicity : T.S. Eliot, Pablo Picasso and Murray Leinster -- Alternat history and the presence of other presents : Virginia Woolf, Philip K. Dick and Christopher Nolan -- Time lags and differential pace : bullet time, William Faulkner and Jessica Hagedorn -- Temporal scale, the far future and inhuman times : foresight in Wells and Woolf, time travel in Olaf Stapledon and Terrence Malick
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (xi, 248 Seiten)
ISBN:9781474431354

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