Modernism and Time Machines

ISBN-13: 9781474431330 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 264 str.

Charles M. Tung

Spis treści

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.