The culture of time and space, 1880-1918 : with a new preface
Title:
The culture of time and space, 1880-1918 : with a new preface
Author:
Kern, Stephen, author.
ISBN:
9780674021693
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Physical Description:
xxxi, 372 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Contents:
The nature of time -- The past -- The present -- The future -- Speed -- The nature of space -- Form -- Distance -- Direction -- Temporality of the July Crisis -- The Cubist War.
Abstract:
"Stephen Kern writes about the sweeping changes in technology and culture between 1880 and World War I that created new modes of understanding and experiencing time and space. This overview covers such figures as Proust, Joyce, Mann, H. G. Wells, Gertrude Stein, Freud, Conrad, Einstein, and Picasso, as well as diverse sources of popular culture and the transformation of traditional values." --Book Jacket.
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