British Literature and Culture in Second World Wartime - For the Duration

Demonstrates how spatial and temporal dislocation were defining traits of the artistic response to the urban bombing campaigns of the Second World War. Studying a range of writers, as well as film, photography, and art, it argues that for civilian populations, aerial bombardment distorts the experience of time itself.

List of contents

• Introduction: Late Modernist Chronophobia


• Part I: Blitz-Time Capsules


• 1: Wartime Presentness


• 2: Psychological Blackout


• 3: Stopped Clocks


• Part II: War Time Zones


• 4: The Neutral Hour


• 5: La France à l'heure Anglaise


• 6: The Ecology of English Time


• Part III: The Temporality of Ruins


• 7: The Archaeology of Ruin-Time


• 8: Children of the Ruins


• 9: The Literary Cartography of Ruins


• Coda

About the author

Beryl Pong is a Vice-Chancellor's Fellow at the University of Sheffield.

Summary

Demonstrates how spatial and temporal dislocation were defining traits of the artistic response to the urban bombing campaigns of the Second World War. Studying a range of writers, as well as film, photography, and art, it argues that for civilian populations, aerial bombardment distorts the experience of time itself.

Additional text

We have known for a while now that the time of war is not one time. But not all wars are polytemporal in the same way. Beryl Pong has written our fullest, most literary account yet of the Second World War's profuse temporalities. Of these, surely the most hauntingly particular are proleptic mourning, preemptive ruination, and "dreading forward". Pong expands our lexicon for loss in advance of loss.

Product details

• Authors: Pong , Beryl Pong, Beryl (Vice-Chancellor's Fellow Pong, Beryl (Vice-Chancellor''s Fellow Pong
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.04.2020
• EAN: 9780198840923
• ISBN: 978-0-19-884092-3
• No. of pages: 308
• Series: Oxford Mid-Century Studies Series; Oxford Mid-Century Studies
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; English, PHOTOGRAPHY / Individual Photographers / General, ART / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, History of Art, Second World War, Individual photographers, c 1938 to c 1946 (World War Two period), Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Art & design styles: Modernist design & Bauhaus, Modern warfare, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000