Postmodern Science Fiction and Temporal Imagination

by Elana Gomel

Book Overview

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;...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1441144021
• ISBN13: 9781441144027
• Release Date: June 2012
• Publisher: Continuum
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.1" x 9.2"