Paul Giles

Planetary Clock

Antipodean Time and Spherical Postmodern Fictions

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Produktbeschreibung

Ranging over various aesthetic forms (literature, film, music) in the period since 1960, this volume brings an antipodean perspective into conversation with the art and culture of the Northern Hemisphere, to reformulate postmodernism as a properly global phenomenon.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 436
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. April 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 163mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 567g
• ISBN-13: 9780198857723
• ISBN-10: 0198857721
• Artikelnr.: 60362452

Autorenporträt

Paul Giles is Challis Professor of English at the University of Sydney. He has worked at the Universities of Nottingham, Cambridge, Oxford, and Portland State and he is currently serving as President of the International Association of University Professors of English.

Inhaltsangabe

* Introduction: Antipodean Time and the Anthropocenic Imaginary
* 1: Répétition Planétaire: Upside Down Postmodernism
* 2: Antipodean Alice: Cold War Fetishism and Frozen Time
* 3: Queer Poetic Time: Crosstemporal Parataxis and Disjunctions of
Scale
* 4: "Reverse-Thinking": Metahistorical Arts and Fictions
* 5: Two-way Time Travel: Recursive Science and "Backward-Flowing"
Fiction
* 6: Postmodern Slave Narratives: Anachronism and Disorientation
* 7: Reorchestrating the Past: Long Songs and Antipodean Relations
* Conclusion: The Long Postmodernism