The essay examines the works of a number of mid-20th-century authors who challenge the domination of clocks in industrial society. This challenge to standard notions of temporality constitutes a significant disjuncture not only from conventional perceptions of time, but from earlier literary perceptions of time in western culture. The examination uses the concept of reification to describe and analyze their rejection of the temporal regularity of clocks.
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