Beryl Pong, Vice-Chancellor's Fellow, University of Sheffield

Beryl Pong is a Vice-Chancellor's Fellow at the University of Sheffield.

"A pioneering work advancing scholarship in temporal studies, this critical analysis examines the duration and effect of WW II on prewar, wartime, and postwar literature, film, art, and other media... Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty." -- B. Adler, Georgia Southwestern State University, CHOICE

"An imaginative, deeply researched, and powerfully revealing study of how British writers, painters, photographers, and filmmakers addressed the distinctive temporalities of the Second World War, stylishly elucidating problems of time and form that range from the anticipatory griefs of late-modernist memoir to the equivocal futurity of post-war cinema's children of the metropolitan bomb-sites. Always alert to artists' own international interests, influences, and allegiances, this book also offers one of the most cosmopolitan, as well as comprehensive, interpretations of British cultural production in those bleakly transformative years." -- Marina MacKay, author of Ian Watt: The Novel and the Wartime Critic

"We have known for a while now that the time of war is not one time. But not all wars are polytemporal in the same way. Beryl Pong has written our fullest, most literary account yet of the Second World War's profuse temporalities. Of these, surely the most hauntingly particular are proleptic mourning, preemptive ruination, and "dreading forward". Pong expands our lexicon for loss in advance of loss." -- Paul K. Saint-Amour, author of Tense Future: Modernism, Total War, Encyclopedic Form