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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....
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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New York :
Continuum,
©2010.
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| Series: | Continuum literary studies.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of 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.