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Literature and Modern Time: Technological Modernity; Glimpses of Eternity; Experiments with Time

Literature and Modern Time: Technological Modernity; Glimpses of Eternity; Experiments with Time

Ferguson, Trish

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Literary Criticism

ISBN10: 3030292800
ISBN13: 9783030292805
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: Aug 26 2021
Pages: 282
Weight: 0.79
Height: 0.62 Width: 5.83 Depth: 8.27
Language: English

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.

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