Overview
- 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
Part of the book series: Geocriticism and Spatial Literary Studies (GSLS)
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About this book
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.
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About the author
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).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Postmodern Time and Space in Fiction and Theory
Authors: Michael Kane
Series Title: Geocriticism and Spatial Literary Studies
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-37449-5
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), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-37448-8Published: 15 January 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-37451-8Published: 15 January 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-37449-5Published: 14 January 2020
Series ISSN: 2578-9694
Series E-ISSN: 2634-5188
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 167
Topics: Literary Theory, Postmodern Literature, Fiction, Environmental Communication, Urban History