- Compiles philosophical and theoretical debates around modernity and contemporary literature
- Contributes to our understanding of spatiality in relation to time, nature, and the city
- Meditates on relevant themes and trends within the study of modernism placing literary texts within a broader context
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- About this book
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Postmodern Time and Space in Fiction and Theory seeks to place the contemporary transformation of notions of space and time, often attributed to the technologies we use, in the context of the ongoing transformations of modernity. Bringing together examples of modern and contemporary fiction (from Defoe to DeLillo, Frankenstein to Finnegans Wake) and theoretical discussions of the modern and the post-modern, the author explores the legacy of modern transformations of space and time under five headings: “The Space of Nature”; “The Space of the City”; “Postmodern or Most Modern Time”; “The Time and Space of the Work of Art in the Age of Digital Reproduction”; and “Travel: from Modernity to…?”. These five essays re-examine the meanings of modernity and its aftermath in relation to the spaces and times of the natural, the urban and the media environment.
- About the authors
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Michael Kane is Lecturer in Literature and Cultural Theory in the School of Arts of the Dublin Business School, in Dublin, Ireland. He is the author of Modern Men: Mapping Masculinity in English and German Literature (1999).
- Table of contents (7 chapters)
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Introduction
Pages 1-14
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The Space of Nature
Pages 15-44
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The Space of the City
Pages 45-68
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Postmodern or Most-Modern Time
Pages 69-97
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The Time and Space of the Work of Art in the Age of Digital Reproduction
Pages 99-133
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Table of contents (7 chapters)
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Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Postmodern Time and Space in Fiction and Theory
- Authors
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- Michael Kane
- Series Title
- Geocriticism and Spatial Literary Studies
- Copyright
- 2020
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Copyright Holder
- The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG
- eBook ISBN
- 978-3-030-37449-5
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-3-030-37449-5
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-3-030-37448-8
- Softcover ISBN
- 978-3-030-37451-8
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- X, 167
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