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September 14, 2004
The Culture of Time and Space: 1880 - 1928
| Title | The Culture of Time and Space: 1880 - 1928 | |
| Author | Stephen Kern | |
| Publisher | Harvard University Press, Cambridge MA | |
| Date | 1993 | |
| ISBN | 0 674 17973 0 | |
| Reviewed by | John Thackara | |
| From around 1880 to the outbreak of World War I a series of sweeping changes in technology and culture created distinctive new modes of thinking about and experiencing time and space. Technological innovations including the telephone, wireless telegraph, x-ray, cinema, bicycle, automobile, and airplane established the material foundation for this reorientation; independent cultural developments such as 'the stream of consciousness' novel, psychonalysis, Cubism, and the theory of relativity shaped consciousness directly. The result was a transformation of the dimensions of life and thought . This book is about the way Europeans and Americans came to conceive of and experience time and space in those years.The overview covers such figures as Proust, Joyce, Mann, H.G.Wells, Gertrude Stein, Freud, Conrad, Einstein, and Picasso, as well as diverse sources of popular culture and the transformation of traditional values. | ||
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