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Modernism and time machines

Title
Modernism and time machines [electronic resource] / Charles M. Tung.
Author
Tung, Charles M.
Publication
Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2019]

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1 online resource (xi, 248 pages, 4 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations (some color)
Series Statement
Edinburgh critical studies in modernist culture
Uniform Title
  • Modernism and time machines (Online)
  • Edinburgh critical studies in modernist culture.
Alternative Title
Modernism and time machines (Online)
Subject
  • 1900-1999
  • English fiction > 20th century > History and criticism
  • American fiction > 20th century > History and criticism
  • Time in literature
  • Science fiction, English > History and criticism
  • Science fiction, American > History and criticism
  • Time travel in literature
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-241) and index.
Access (note)
  • Access restricted to authorized users.
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.
LCCN
2019285653
OCLC
ssj0002507709
Author
Tung, Charles M.
Title
Modernism and time machines [electronic resource] / Charles M. Tung.
Imprint
Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2019]
Series
Edinburgh critical studies in modernist culture
Edinburgh critical studies in modernist culture.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-241) and index.
Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
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Chronological Term
1900-1999
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