1st Edition
Time in Twenty-First-Century British and American Literature Out of Sync
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Representations of Time in Twenty-First-Century Anglo-American Literature
Chapter 1: Time Suspended
Chapter 2: Temporal Consciousness
Chapter 3: Memory of the Future
Chapter 4: Networked Memory
Conclusion: The Chronometer of Literature
Index
Biography
Sonia Front is Professor in the Institute of Literary Studies, University of Silesia in Katowice, Poland. She teaches literature and media studies. Her research interests include time and temporality as well as representations of consciousness in twenty‑first‑century literature, film, and television. Her previous monograph is titled Shapes of Time in British Twenty‑First Century Quantum Fiction. She is the Vice President of the International Society for the Study of Time.
Time in Twenty-First-Century British and American Literature: Out of Sync is a thought-provoking addition to the study of time in modern Anglo-American literature. Offering an overview of contemporary processes and scales, from the epoch of the Anthropocene to the periodisation of Western history, the accelerated hour of industrialisation, and the atomization of the digital, the monograph diagnoses crises and ruptures in our concepts of time. This wide lens opens up the temporal logic of late capitalism and how this has come to shape, and been shaped by, literary representations.
--Isabelle Wentworth, University of Wollongong, Australia
