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  1. Postmodern science fiction and temporal imagination
    Erschienen: (c)2010
    Verlag:  Continuum, New York

    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... mehr

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    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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    Quelle: Verbundkataloge
    Sprache: Englisch
    Medientyp: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9781441178831; 144117883X; 1441123954; 9781441123954
    Schriftenreihe: Continuum literary studies
    Schlagworte: Science fiction; Time in literature; Postmodernism (Literature); Science fiction; History and criticism; Literature; Science fiction; Postmodernism (Literature); LITERARY CRITICISM ; Science Fiction & Fantasy; Time in literature; Criticism, interpretation, etc
    Umfang: Online Ressource (xi, 177 pages)
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  2. Postmodern science fiction and temporal imagination
    Autor*in: Gomel, Elana
    Erschienen: ©2010
    Verlag:  Continuum, New York

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    Quelle: Verbundkataloge
    Sprache: Englisch
    Medientyp: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9781441178831; 144117883X; 1441123954; 9781441123954
    Schriftenreihe: Continuum literary studies
    Schlagworte: History and criticism; Science fiction; Literature; LITERARY CRITICISM / Science Fiction & Fantasy; Literatur; Science fiction; Time in literature; Postmodernism (Literature); Zeit <Motiv>; Science-Fiction-Literatur; Postmoderne
    Umfang: 1 Online-Ressource (xi, 177 pages)
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    Includes bibliographical references and index

    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