Modernism and time machines /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Tung, Charles M. (Author)
Corporate Author:	Cambridge University Press
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2019]
Series:	Edinburgh critical studies in modernist culture.
Subjects:	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. Roman anglais > 20e siècle > Histoire et critique. Roman américain > 20e siècle > Histoire et critique. Temps dans la littérature. American fiction. English fiction. Science fiction, American. Science fiction, English. 1900-1999 Electronic books.
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Table of 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.