BIBFRAME Work

Title

Time in twenty-first-century British and American literature

Type

• Text
• Monograph

Contribution

• Front, Sonia (author )

Subject

• American literature--21st century--History and criticism (LCSH)
• Time in literature (LCSH)
• English literature--21st century--History and criticism (LCSH)

Genre Form

• Literary criticism (LCGFT)

Language

• English

Classification

• LCC: PR488.T56 F76 2025 (Assigner: dlc) (Status: used by assigner)
• DDC: 820.9/384 (Assigner: dlc)

Content

• text

Supplementary content

• index
• bibliography

Summary

"This book investigates representations of time in twenty-first-century Anglo-American liter-ature. In the digital era, characterized by a new regime of time, fiction offers revisions of prevalent, oppressive notions of time that can serve as productive political strategies to re-claim the agency of the subject. The book discusses literary texts that craft innovative temporal structures out of sync with the new time logic: suspended temporality (chapter 1); time as a conflation of phenomenological experience and cosmological laws (chapter 2); pre-viewing the future (chapter 3) and networked memory (chapter 4). The proposed politically productive temporalities, such as deep presence or resonance, compatibilism, contingency and the use of narrative as a chronologizing strategy, ground a vision of change and suggest a way out of the crisis of time. Identifying new timeframes in twenty-first-century fiction by an array of writers, the book demonstrates that literature remains a valid medium for theorizing and representing time"-- Provided by publisher.

Authorized Access Point

Front, Sonia. Time in twenty-first-century British and American literature

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• Date: 2026-09-12T02:49:56.634765+00:00
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• Status: c
• Derived from: 24031080

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