Modernism and time machines /

Tung, Charles M.,

Modernism and time machines / Charles M. Tung. - United Kingdom: Edinburgh University Press Ltd, 2020 - xi, 248 pages, 4 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; - Edinburgh critical studies in modernist culture .

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

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.

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English fiction
American fiction
Time in literature.
Science fiction, English
Science fiction, American
Time travel in literature.
American fiction.
English fiction.
Science fiction, American.
Science fiction, English.
Time in literature.
Time travel in literature.

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