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Time in German literature and culture, 1900-2015 : between acceleration and slowness / edited by Anne Fuchs (University of Warwick, UK) and J.J. Long (Durham University, UK).
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Palgrave studies in modern European literature
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- German literature--20th century--History and criticism.
- German literature.
- German literature--21st century--History and criticism.
- Time perception in literature.
- Time in literature.
- Time--Philosophy.
- Time.
- Space and time.
- Genre:
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 283 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire : New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.
- Contents:
- Introduction: faulty clocks, human errors and the management of time in modernity and late modernity / Anne Fuchs and J.J. Long
- Temporal Ambivalence: Acceleration, Attention and Lateness in Modernist Discourse / Anne Fuchs
- How Long does the Present Last? Seven Approaches to a Fleeting Phenomenon / Aleida Assmann
- Architecture in Transit: Three High Tech Historicist Airports / Kathleen James-Chakraborty
- Epistemology, Poetics and Time in Modernist Short Prose around 1900 / Dirk Göttsche
- Observations on Time and Motion: Kafka's Betrachtung and the Visual Arts around 1912 / Elizabeth Boa
- Icons of Speed, Icons of Crisis: Acceleration Effects in Weimar Culture / Matthias Uecker
- Snapshot, Composite, Blur: Photography and Speed in the Weimar Republic / J.J. Long
- Syncope, Pause, Caesura: Robert Musil and the Psychotechnics of Acceleration / Carolin Duttlinger
- "Good Work": Speed, Slowness and Taking Care in Christian Petzold's Barbara / Andrew J. Webber
- Writing and Acceleration in the Aftermath of German Unification: Riding the "Information Rapids" with Angela Krau€ / Gillian Pye
- The Temporality of Boredom in the Age of Acceleration: The Car Crash in Contemporary German Literature / Mary Cosgrove.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 254-273) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9781137411860
- 1137411864
- OCLC:
- 936082463
- Publisher Number:
- 99966962068
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