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[email protected] Follow this and additional works at: https://digital.kenyon.edu/english_publications Part of the English Language and Literature Commons Recommended Citation Matz, Jesse, "J. B. Priestley in the Theater of Time" (2012). Modernism/Modernity 19(2): 321-342. Faculty Publications. Paper 13. https://digital.kenyon.edu/english_publications/13 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the English at Digital Kenyon: Research, Scholarship, and Creative Exchange. It has been accepted for inclusion in Faculty Publications by an authorized administrator of Digital Kenyon: Research, Scholarship, and Creative Exchange. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. -%3ULHVWOH\LQWKH7KHDWHURI7LPH Jesse Matz Modernism/modernity, Volume 19, Number 2, April 2012, pp. 321-342 (Article) 3XEOLVKHGE\7KH-RKQV+RSNLQV8QLYHUVLW\3UHVV DOI: 10.1353/mod.2012.0040 For additional information about this article http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/mod/summary/v019/19.2.matz.html Access provided by Kenyon College (20 Oct 2014 09:56 GMT) J. B. Priestley in the Theater of Time Jesse Matz At 10:00 p.m. on Sunday, March 17, 1963, J. B. Priestley appeared on Monitor, the BBC’s fortnightly arts program, to modernism / discuss a work in progress. It was Man and Time (1964), his modernity volume nineteen, “personal essay exploring the eternal riddle,” which surveys ways number two, time has been reckoned throughout history, time’s challenges pp 321–342. © 2012 to philosophy, science, and the arts, its character in “this age,” the johns hopkins and, finally, Priestley’s own fascination: “multiple time,” in which university press past, present, and future become at once available to human understanding.