Time in Twenty-First-Century British and American Literature - Out of Sync

It investigates representations of time in 21st century Anglo-American literature, focusing on innovative timeframes out of sync with the new time logic of digital capitalism. Revising prevalent, oppressive notions of time, fiction offers politically productive temporalities to reclaim the agency of the subject and resist the crisis of time.

List of contents

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

About the author

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.

Product details

• Authors: Sonia Front, Front Sonia
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 20.06.2025
• EAN: 9781041006459
• ISBN: 978-1-0-4100645-9
• No. of pages: 194
• Series: Routledge Studies in Contemporary Literature
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; North America, LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 21st Century, United States of America, USA, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Literary studies: from c 2000