Elana Gomel

Postmodern Science Fiction and Temporal Imagination

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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 generated new narrative forms of apprehending temporalit… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-1-4411-7883-1
EAN: 9781441178831
Produktnummer: 17021027
Verlag: Bloomsbury UK
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2010
Seitenangabe: 192 S.
Plattform: PDF
Masse: 939 KB

Über den Autor

Elana Gomel is a Senior Lecturer at the Department of English and American Studies, Tel-Aviv University, Israel, which she chaired for two years. She is the author of three academic books and a number of articles, on topics ranging from science fiction to narrative theory; and from poetics of evolution to the Victorian novel.