Backgazing: Reverse Time in Modernist Culture

by Paul Giles

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198830440
• ISBN13: 9780198830443
• Release Date: April 2019
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.8" x 9.8"