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  1. Postmodern science fiction and temporal imagination
    Author: Gomel, Elana
    Published: 2010
    Publisher:  Continuum, New York

    Universität Mainz, Zentralbibliothek
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9781441178831 (Sekundärausgabe)
    RVK Categories: HG 672 ; EC 6745
    Series: Continuum literary studies
    Subjects: Postmoderne; Science-Fiction-Literatur; Zeit <Motiv>
    Scope: xi, 177 S.
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  2. Postmodern Science Fiction and Temporal Imagination
    Author: Gomel, Elana
    Published: 2010
    Publisher:  Continuum International Publishing, London

    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... more

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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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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9781441123954; 9781441178831 (Sekundärausgabe)
    RVK Categories: EC 6745 ; HG 672
    Series: Continuum Literary Studies
    Subjects: Postmoderne; Science-Fiction-Literatur; Zeit <Motiv>
    Scope: 190 p.
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