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Backgazing : reverse time in modernist culture

Giles, Paul, author

Overview

This volume trace ways in which time is represented in reverse forms throughout modernist culture, from the beginning of the twentieth century until the decade after World War II. Though modernism is often associated with revolutionary or futurist directions, this book argues instead that a retrograde dimension is embedded within it. By juxtaposing the literature of Europe and North America with that of Australia and New Zealand, it suggests how this antipodean context serves to defamiliarize and reconceptualize normative modernist understandings of temporal progression. Backgazing thus moves beyond the treatment of a specific geographical periphery as another margin on the expanding field of 'New Modernist Studies'. Instead, it offers a systematic investigation of the transformative effect of retrograde dimensions on our understanding of canonical modernist texts. 0.

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Subject: Modernism (Literature) History and criticism. / Time in literature. / Modernism (Literature)
• ISBN: 9780198830443, 0198830440

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
PN56.T5 G55 2019	1	BOOK	AUTOSTORE