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Author Gomel, Elana.

Title Postmodern science fiction and temporal imagination / Elana Gomel.

Publication Info. New York : Continuum, [2010]
©2010

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 177 pages).
Series Continuum literary studies
Continuum literary studies.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents 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.
Summary 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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Subject Science fiction -- History and criticism.
Time in literature.
Postmodernism (Literature)
History and criticism.
Science fiction.
Literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- Science Fiction & Fantasy.
Postmodernism (Literature) (OCoLC)fst01073181
Science fiction. (OCoLC)fst01108566
Time in literature. (OCoLC)fst01151108
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. (OCoLC)fst01411635
Other Form: Print version: Gomel, Elana. Postmodern science fiction and temporal imagination. New York : Continuum, ©2010 9781441123954 (DLC) 2009050601 (OCoLC)482606120
ISBN 9781441178831 (electronic bk.)
144117883X (electronic bk.)
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