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Postmodern science fiction and temporal imagination /
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....
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Continuum,
©2010.
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| Colección: | Continuum literary studies.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | 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 |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xi, 177 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781441178831 144117883X 1441123954 9781441123954 1472542738 9781472542731 1282765787 9781282765788 9786612765780 661276578X 9781441144027 1441144021 9781441146861 1441146865 |