Paul Giles is Challis Chair of English at the University of Sydney and has taught at the Universities of Nottingham, Cambridge, Oxford, and Portland State. Previously, he served as Director of the Rothermere American Institute at Oxford (2003-2008) and as President of the International American Studies Association (2005-2007).

• Preface Introduction: Antipodean Modernism and the "Retrodiction" Paradox 1: Retrodynamics: 'Back to Front' Fiction 2: Anamorphosis: Bloomsbury's Queer Imperialism 3: Double Exposures: Time-Lapse Poetry 4: Organicist Time: Germanic Modernism and its Discontents 5: What Time Collects: Collective Retrojection in Dark and Farrell 6: Antiphonal Arts: Burlesque, Music and Retrograde Time Conclusion: Modernism's Fifth Continent

Backgazing: Reverse Time in Modernist Culture by Paul Giles is an erudite and perceptive account of how the literature of Australia and New Zealand entwine with the key texts and ideas of literary and artistic modernism. Its particular value is how it shows, with satisfying weight, the value of both the antipodes and its literature on the global stage.

Paul Giles is Challis Chair of English at the University of Sydney and has taught at the Universities of Nottingham, Cambridge, Oxford, and Portland State. Previously, he served as Director of the Rothermere American Institute at Oxford (2003-2008) and as President of the International American Studies Association (2005-2007).

• Preface Introduction: Antipodean Modernism and the "Retrodiction" Paradox 1: Retrodynamics: 'Back to Front' Fiction 2: Anamorphosis: Bloomsbury's Queer Imperialism 3: Double Exposures: Time-Lapse Poetry 4: Organicist Time: Germanic Modernism and its Discontents 5: What Time Collects: Collective Retrojection in Dark and Farrell 6: Antiphonal Arts: Burlesque, Music and Retrograde Time Conclusion: Modernism's Fifth Continent

Backgazing: Reverse Time in Modernist Culture by Paul Giles is an erudite and perceptive account of how the literature of Australia and New Zealand entwine with the key texts and ideas of literary and artistic modernism. Its particular value is how it shows, with satisfying weight, the value of both the antipodes and its literature on the global stage.

Paul Giles is Challis Chair of English at the University of Sydney and has taught at the Universities of Nottingham, Cambridge, Oxford, and Portland State. Previously, he served as Director of the Rothermere American Institute at Oxford (2003-2008) and as President of the International American Studies Association (2005-2007).

• Preface Introduction: Antipodean Modernism and the "Retrodiction" Paradox 1: Retrodynamics: 'Back to Front' Fiction 2: Anamorphosis: Bloomsbury's Queer Imperialism 3: Double Exposures: Time-Lapse Poetry 4: Organicist Time: Germanic Modernism and its Discontents 5: What Time Collects: Collective Retrojection in Dark and Farrell 6: Antiphonal Arts: Burlesque, Music and Retrograde Time Conclusion: Modernism's Fifth Continent

Backgazing: Reverse Time in Modernist Culture by Paul Giles is an erudite and perceptive account of how the literature of Australia and New Zealand entwine with the key texts and ideas of literary and artistic modernism. Its particular value is how it shows, with satisfying weight, the value of both the antipodes and its literature on the global stage.