Postmodern Time and Space in Fiction and Theory seeks to place the
contemporary transformation of notions of space and time, often
attributed to the technologies we use, in the context of the ongoing
transformations of modernity. Bringing together examples of modern and
contemporary fiction (from Defoe to DeLillo, Frankenstein to
Finnegans Wake) and theoretical discussions of the modern and the
post-modern, the author explores the legacy of modern transformations of
space and time under five headings: "The Space of Nature"; "The Space of
the City"; "Postmodern or Most Modern Time"; "The Time and Space of
the Work of Art in the Age of Digital Reproduction"; and "Travel: from
Modernity to...?". These five essays re-examine the meanings of
modernity and its aftermath in relation to the spaces and times of the
natural, the urban and the media environment.