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Recessional - Or, the Time of the Hammer

Paperback • 2016 • 1. edition

Recessional - Or, the Time of the Hammer

By Tom McCarthy

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About the book

Modernist and contemporary literature are marked by a preoccupation with time, specifically with the passage of time characterized by starts and stops and suspended states of waiting. Acclaimed novelist Tom McCarthy brings out a temporal pattern, a subliminal convention of a certain fringe of modernism that works both in and against the canon of modernist literature in works by Thomas Pynchon, J. G. Ballard, Maurice Blanchot, Thomas Mann, Joseph Conrad, James Joyce, and William Faulkner, as well...Show more

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ISBN

9783037345894

Publisher

Diaphanes AG

Published year

2016

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Edition

1

Original title

Recessional - Or, the Time of the Hammer

Format

Paperback

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