Backgazing: Reverse Time in Modernist Culture

Author:   Paul Giles (Challis Professor of English, University of Sydney)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
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Pages:   336
Publication Date:   04 March 2019
Format:   Hardback
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Author:   Paul Giles (Challis Professor of English, University of Sydney)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 16.40cm , Height: 2.60cm , Length: 24.20cm
Weight:   0.660kg
ISBN:  

9780198830443


ISBN 10:   0198830440
Pages:   336
Publication Date:   04 March 2019
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Preface Introduction: Antipodean Modernism and the Retrodiction Paradox 1: Retrodynamics: 'Back to Front' Fiction 2: Anamorphosis: Bloomsbury's Queer Imperialism 3: Double Exposures: Time-Lapse Poetry 4: Organicist Time: Germanic Modernism and its Discontents 5: What Time Collects: Collective Retrojection in Dark and Farrell 6: Antiphonal Arts: Burlesque, Music and Retrograde Time Conclusion: Modernism's Fifth Continent

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Two of the bravura readings at the centre of this study are of Thomas Mann and Eleanor Dark. It's worth reading this book for these alone...There are many fascinating points of difference with Dark. There is also a fascinating interlude about H.G. Wells, his entanglements with Australia, and his The Conquest if Time (1942), with a fitting preface about Douglas Sirk's 1937 film To New Shores (Zu neuen Ufern) * Philip Mead, University of Western Australia. , Australian Book Review * Backgazing puts Australia onto the map of global modernism while resurrecting the issue of modernist time for the twenty-first century. It does so with a sweep, an authority, and a scrupulousness of attention that readers have come to expect from the superb work of Paul Giles. * Nicholas Birns, New York University, Modern Language Quarterly * Backgazing is full of brilliant ideas drawn from Giles's considerable knowledge of early twentieth-century writing across the hemispheres. While few readers will be able to match his breadth of reading, many will find parts of the book illuminating and be persuaded by this new arrangement of twentieth-century world literature and Australian literature's place within it. * Susan Lever, Cambria Australian Literature Series, Inside Story *


Backgazing is full of brilliant ideas drawn from Giles's considerable knowledge of early twentieth-century writing across the hemispheres. While few readers will be able to match his breadth of reading, many will find parts of the book illuminating and be persuaded by this new arrangement of twentieth-century world literature and Australian literature's place within it. * Susan Lever, Cambria Australian Literature Series, Inside Story * Backgazing puts Australia onto the map of global modernism while resurrecting the issue of modernist time for the twenty-first century. It does so with a sweep, an authority, and a scrupulousness of attention that readers have come to expect from the superb work of Paul Giles. * Nicholas Birns, New York University, Modern Language Quarterly * Two of the bravura readings at the centre of this study are of Thomas Mann and Eleanor Dark. It's worth reading this book for these alone...There are many fascinating points of difference with Dark. There is also a fascinating interlude about H.G. Wells, his entanglements with Australia, and his The Conquest if Time (1942), with a fitting preface about Douglas Sirk's 1937 film To New Shores (Zu neuen Ufern) * Philip Mead, University of Western Australia. , Australian Book Review *


Two of the bravura readings at the centre of this study are of Thomas Mann and Eleanor Dark. It's worth reading this book for these alone...There are many fascinating points of difference with Dark. There is also a fascinating interlude about H.G. Wells, his entanglements with Australia, and his The Conquest if Time (1942), with a fitting preface about Douglas Sirk's 1937 film To New Shores (Zu neuen Ufern) * Philip Mead, University of Western Australia. , Australian Book Review *


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Paul Giles is Challis Chair of English at the University of Sydney and has taught at the Universities of Nottingham, Cambridge, Oxford, and Portland State. Previously, he served as Director of the Rothermere American Institute at Oxford (2003-2008) and as President of the International American Studies Association (2005-2007).

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