Charles M. Tung

Modernism and Time Machines (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

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 "e;Sidewise in Time"e;; Woolf, Philip K. Dick's alternate history, and the film Interstellar; bullet time, Faulkner's racialized lag, and Jessica Hagedorn's postcolonial anachronism; "e;big history,"e; Olaf Stapledon's two-billion-year novel of the human species, and Terrence Malick's film Tree of Life

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. März 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781474431354
• Artikelnr.: 72422160

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