The culture of time and space, 1880-1918 : with a new preface / Stephen Kern.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, [2003]Copyright date: ©2003Description: xxxi, 372 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
  • still image
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 067402169X
  • 9780674021693
Subject(s):
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.
Summary: "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."--Jacket.
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Books Books Jost Bürgi Library Reading Room CB478 .K46 2003 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 31560000051967

Includes bibliographical references (pages 321-362) and index.

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.

"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."--Jacket.

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Scholarly exploration on the nature of time and space especially the concept of simultaneity, includes Bibliography and Index

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