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Time Lags And Differential Pace: Bullet Time, William Faulkner and Jessica Hagedorn 《时间滞后与差异速度:子弹时间》，威廉·福克纳、杰西卡·哈格多恩著

Modernism and Time Machines Pub Date : 2019-07-01 DOI: 10.3366/edinburgh/9781474431330.003.0003

Charles M. Tung

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Conclusion 结论

Modernism and Time Machines Pub Date : 2019-07-01 DOI: 10.3366/edinburgh/9781474431330.003.0005

Charles M. Tung

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Temporal Scale, The Far Future and Inhuman Times: Foresight in Wells and Woolf, Time Travel in Olaf Stapledon and Terrence Malick 时间尺度，遥远的未来和非人时代:威尔斯和伍尔夫的预见，奥拉夫·斯台普顿和泰伦斯·马利克的时间旅行

Modernism and Time Machines Pub Date : 2019-07-01 DOI: 10.3366/edinburgh/9781474431330.003.0004

Charles M. Tung

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Alternate History And The Presence of Other Presents: Virginia Woolf, Philip K. Dick and Christopher Nolan 交替历史和其他礼物的存在:弗吉尼亚·伍尔夫，菲利普·k·迪克和克里斯托弗·诺兰

Modernism and Time Machines Pub Date : 2019-07-01 DOI: 10.3366/edinburgh/9781474431330.003.0006

Charles M. Tung

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Introduction: Modernism, Time Machines and the Defamiliarisation of Time 导论:现代主义，时间机器和时间的陌生化

Modernism and Time Machines Pub Date : 2019-07-01 DOI: 10.3366/edinburgh/9781474431330.003.0001

Charles M. Tung

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The Heterochronic Past and Sidewise Historicity: T. S. Eliot, Pablo Picasso and Murray Leinster 异时性的过去与侧面的历史性:t.s.艾略特、巴勃罗·毕加索和默里·伦斯特

Modernism and Time Machines Pub Date : 2019-04-01 DOI: 10.3366/edinburgh/9781474431330.003.0002

Charles M. Tung

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