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Backgazing: Reverse Time in Modernist Culture by Paul Giles (Hardcover, 2019)

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ISBN-13: 9780198830443, 978-0198830443.

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This book discusses how time is represented in reverse forms in literature and culture during the first half of the twentieth century. Focusing on both famous modernist authors like James Joyce and T. S. Eliot and relatively neglected figures such as Nancy Cunard, and reading them all alongside marginalized writers from Australia and New Zealand, Backgazing suggests ways in which reverse formations of both time and space became crucial to the formation of a planetary consciousness at this time. By examining science fiction writers such as H. G. Wells in parallel with the work of philosophers and film-makers, Backgazing analyses how retrograde forms of time entered into popular social consciousness as well as intellectual thought in the years on either side of World War II.