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

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3030292800
• ISBN13: 9783030292805
• Release Date: August 2021
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 282 Pages
• Weight: 0.79 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.8" x 8.3"