{"product_id":"chronoschisms-time-narrative-and-postmodernism-hardback-9780521554862","title":"Chronoschisms; Time, Narrative, and Postmodernism (Hardback) 9780521554862","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eChronoschisms\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eTime, Narrative, and Postmodernism\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eAn analysis of the way postmodern novels respond to changes in the experience of time.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eUrsula K. Heise (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780521554862, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 7 August 1997\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e300 pages\u003cbr\u003e21.6 x 14 x 2.1 cm, 0.53 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eIn Chronoschisms Ursula Heise explores the way developments in transportation, communication and information technology have led to the emergence of a different culture of time in Western societies. The radical transformation in our understanding and experience of time has also profoundly affected the structure of the novel. Heisse argues that postmodern novels are centrally concerned with the possibility of experiencing time in an age when temporal horizons have been drastically foreshortened. 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. The coexistence of these competing experiences of time then allows new conceptions of history and posthistory to emerge, and opens up comparisons with recent scientific approaches to temporality. This wide-ranging study offers readings of postmodernist theory and fresh insight into the often vexed relationship between literature and science.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003e Part I. Chronoschisms: 1. From soft clocks to hardware: narrative and the postmodern experience of time\u003cbr\u003e Part II. Time Forks and Time Loops: 2. Number, chance and narrative: Julio Cortázar's Rayuela\u003cbr\u003e 3. 'Repetitions, contradictions and omissions': Robbe-Grillet's Topologie d'une cité fantôme\u003cbr\u003e 4. Print time: text and duration in Beckett's How It Is\u003cbr\u003e  Part III. Posthistories: 5. ?t: time's assembly in Gravity's Rainbow\u003cbr\u003e 6.  Effect predicts cause: Brooke-Rose's Out\u003cbr\u003e Epilogue: Schismatrix\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Literary theory [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Literary theory\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Literary%20theory%20%5BDSA%5D%22\"\u003eDSA\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46065979785496,"sku":"9780521554862","price":91.88,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9780521554862i.jpg?v=1691408532","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/chronoschisms-time-narrative-and-postmodernism-hardback-9780521554862","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}