| Description |
1 online resource (xi, 177 pages). |
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polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
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Continuum literary studies
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Continuum literary studies.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction: Time enough for world -- Time machines: H.G. Wells and the invention of postmodernity -- Strangled by the time loop: paradoxes of determinism -- 'My name is might-have-been': contingency, counterfactuals and moral choice -- Everyday apocalypse: the ethics and aesthetics of the end of time -- Conclusion: Beyond millennium. |
| Summary |
Are we living in a post-temporal age? Has history come to an end? This book argues against the widespread perception of postmodern narrativity as atemporal and ahistorical, claiming that postmodernity is characterized by an explosion of heterogeneous narrative "timeshapes" or chronotopes. Chronological linearity is being challenged by quantum physics that implies temporal simultaneity; by evolutionary theory that charts multiple time-lines; and by religious and political millenarianism that espouses an apocalyptic finitude of both time and space. While science, religion, and politics have gene. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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Science fiction -- History and criticism.
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Science fiction. |
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Time in literature.
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Time in literature. |
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Postmodernism (Literature)
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Postmodernism (Literature) |
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Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Gomel, Elana. Postmodern science fiction and temporal imagination. New York : Continuum, ©2010 9781441123954 (DLC) 2009050601 (OCoLC)482606120 |
| ISBN |
9781441178831 (electronic book) |
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144117883X (electronic book) |
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1441123954 |
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9781441123954 |
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9781441123954 |
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