Chronoschisms: Time, Narrative, and Postmodernism

by Ursula K. Heise

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521555442
• ISBN13: 9780521555449
• Release Date: August 1997
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 300 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.4" x 8.4"