Postmodern science fiction and temporal imagination:
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1. Verfasser: Gomel, Elana (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: New York Continuum ©2010
Schriftenreihe:Continuum literary studies
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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
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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ISBN:9781441178831
144117883X
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