Comparative Modernism and Poetics of Time Bergson, Tanpinar, Benjamin, Walser

This book explores the conceptualization of time in early twentieth-century literature and thought, based on a transnational and translational model of literary history, focusing on Turkish, French and German literary traditions. Each from different cultural backgrounds, these modernists provide a r...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Dolcerocca, Özen Nergis
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham Palgrave Macmillan 2023, 2023
Edition:1st ed. 2023
Series:New Comparisons in World Literature
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Collection: Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • Chapter 1
  • Introduction
  • Part I: Philosophy of Time
  • Chapter 2- Bergson, The Politics of Time and Modernity
  • Part II: Chronometrics in the Modern Capital: the City, the Past and Collective Memory
  • Chapter 3 - Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar’s Istanbul
  • Chapter 4- Chronometrics in the Modern Capital: Walter Benjamin’s Fairytale
  • Part III: The Literary Clock and Chronophobia
  • Chapter 5 - Chronostasis: Temporal Disorders and the Critique of Managed Existence in The Time Regulation Institute
  • Chapter 6- The Clockwork Language: Temporal and Linguistic Modernity in Robert Walser’s The Assistant
  • Chapter 7- Conclusion