Overview
Offers genuine dialogue between literature and time theory
Uncovers and examines influences and connections between philosophers and writers of the era
Looks at a wide range of authors, from Thomas Hardy to Ford Madox Ford
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About this book
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.
This collection contains interdisciplinary research of the quite highest kind - to see so many different kinds of time - narrative, historical, mechanical, subjective, non-linear time, myth and nostalgia - as well as time/space discussed here is very stimulating indeed.
Professor Simon James
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Literature and Modern Time
Book Subtitle: Technological Modernity; Glimpses of Eternity; Experiments with Time
Editors: Trish Ferguson
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-29278-2
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-29277-5Published: 07 May 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-29280-5Published: 26 August 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-29278-2Published: 06 May 2020
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 282
Number of Illustrations: 3 b/w illustrations
Topics: Twentieth-Century Literature, Nineteenth-Century Literature, Literary Theory