Lost in the Shadow of the Word: Space, Time, and Freedom in Interwar Eastern Europe

by Benjamin Paloff

2018 AATSEEL Prize for Best Book in Literary Scholarship

Scholars of modernism have long addressed how literature, painting, and music reflected the radical reconceptualization of space and time in the early twentieth century--a veritable revolution in both physics and philosophy that has been characterized as precipitating an "epistemic trauma" around the world. In this wide-ranging study, Benjamin Paloff contends that writers in Central...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0810134136
• ISBN13: 9780810134133
• Release Date: December 2016
• Publisher: Northwestern University Press
• Length: 376 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.0" x 8.9"