Research Catalog

Title

Modernism and time machines / Charles M. Tung.

Author

Tung, Charles M.

Publication

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2019.

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Details

Description

xi, 248 pages, 4 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color); 24 cm.

Series Statement

Edinburgh critical studies in modernist culture

Uniform Title

Edinburgh critical studies in modernist culture.

Subjects

• American fiction
• English fiction
• Time in literature
• Time travel in literature
• 1900-1999
• American fiction > 20th century > History and criticism
• Science fiction, American > History and criticism
• Science fiction, English > History and criticism
• English fiction > 20th century > History and criticism
• Criticism, interpretation, etc

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-241) and index.

Contents

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.

Call Number

JFE 19-7853

ISBN

• 147443133X
• 9781474431330

OCLC

1039933624

Author

Tung, Charles M., author.

Title

Modernism and time machines / Charles M. Tung.

Publisher

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2019.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Edinburgh critical studies in modernist culture

Edinburgh critical studies in modernist culture.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-241) and index.

Chronological Term

1900-1999

Research Call Number

JFE 19-7853