Chronoschisms
Time, Narrative, and Postmodernism
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- Author: Ursula K. Heise, Columbia University, New York
- Date Published: August 1997
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- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521555449
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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.
Read more- Was the first book to look at how changes in time have affected the postmodern novel
- Explores the intersection between literature, science, and technology
- Offers a thorough historical perspective, a detailed comparison of modern and postmodernist culture
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- Date Published: August 1997
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521555449
- length: 300 pages
- dimensions: 214 x 138 x 15 mm
- weight: 0.38kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
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
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