Modernist Time Ecology

by Jesse Matz

A new view of the way modernist fiction writers tried to solve the problem of time.

Do our fictions transform time? Do they cultivate the temporal environment? Such was the hope--or the fantasy--at work in many modernist novels for which time was not only the major subject but also an object of reparative aspiration. Aimed at a kind of stewardship of time, these fictions constitute a practice of modernist time ecology: an effort to...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1421426994
• ISBN13: 9781421426990
• Release Date: December 2018
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.3" x 9.1"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher