| Literature and Modern Time: Technological Modernity; Glimpses of Eternity; Experiments with Time 2020 Edition Contributor(s): Ferguson, Trish (Editor) |
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ISBN: 3030292770 ISBN-13: 9783030292775 Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan OUR PRICE: $113.99 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: May 2020 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Modern - 20th Century - Literary Criticism | Modern - 19th Century - Literary Criticism | Semiotics & Theory |
| Dewey: 801 |
| Physical Information: 0.69" H x 5.83" W x 8.27" (1.12 lbs) 282 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 20th Century - Chronological Period - 19th Century |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Literature and Modern Time is a collection of essays that explore literature in the context of a wave of challenges to linear conceptions of time introduced by thinkers such as Bergson, Einstein, McTaggart, Freud and Nietzsche. These challenges were not uniform in character. The volume will demonstrate that literature of the era under scrutiny was not simply reacting to new theories of time--in some cases it is actually inspiring and anticipating them. Thus Literature and Modern Time promises to offer a genuine dialogue between literature and time theory and in doing so will uncover and examine influences and connections-- sometimes unexpected--between philosophers and writers of the era. It will examine literary attempts to transcend and escape time and also challenge rupture-based accounts of modernist time by demonstrating that literary texts commonly associated with brokenness, decline or stasis, also, at the same time, maintain faith in healing, renewal and mobility. |
