Ursula K. Heise

Chronoschisms

Time, Narrative, and Postmodernism
Herausgeber: Cascardi, Anthony; Macksey, Richard

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Produktbeschreibung

In Chronoschisms Ursula Heise explores the way developments in communication and information technology have led to the emergence of a new culture of time in Western societies. Drawing on theories of postmodernism and narratology, she shows how postmodern narratives break up the concept of plot into a spectrum of contradictory story lines that allow new conceptions of history and posthistory to emerge. This wide-ranging study offers new readings of postmodernist theory and fresh insight into the often vexing relationship between literature and science.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 300
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Januar 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 426g
• ISBN-13: 9780521555449
• ISBN-10: 0521555442
• Artikelnr.: 22109478

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Part I. Chronoschisms: 1. From soft clocks to hardware: narrative and the postmodern experience of time
Part II. Time Forks and Time Loops: 2. Number, chance and narrative: Julio Cortázar's Rayuela
3. 'Repetitions, contradictions and omissions': Robbe-Grillet's Topologie d'une cité fantôme
4. Print time: text and duration in Beckett's How It Is
Part III. Posthistories: 5. ¿t: time's assembly in Gravity's Rainbow
6. Effect predicts cause: Brooke-Rose's Out
Epilogue: Schismatrix
Bibliography.