Chronoschisms by Ursula K Heise
In 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.-
Paratexts
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Derrida and Autobiography
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Theories of Mimesis
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Possible Worlds in Literary Theory
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Mikhail Bakhtin
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The Subject of Modernity
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Parody
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Ideology and Inscription
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Rhetoric and Culture in Lacan
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Preparing the Suzuki RM and PE for Competition
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Theory and the Novel
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The Practice of Theory
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The Poetics of Personification
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The Subject and the Text
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Kenneth Burke
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Onomatopoetics
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Critical Conditions
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Consequences of Enlightenment
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Renegotiating Ethics in Literature, Philosophy, and Theory
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Anti-Mimesis from Plato to Hitchcock
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The Object of Literature
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Theorising Textual Subjects
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Wordsworth, Dialogics and the Practice of Criticism
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Singularities
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Rhetoric, Sophistry, Pragmatism
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Cinema, Theory, and Political Responsibility in Contemporary Culture
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Theorizing the Avant-Garde
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Novels behind Glass
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Introduction to Literary Hermeneutics
Heise, Ursula K.: - Ursula K. Heise is the Marcia H. Howard Chair in Literary Studies in the Department of English and the Institute of the Environment and Sustainability at the University of California, Los Angeles.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780521555449 |
| ISBN 10 | 0521555442 |
| Title | Chronoschisms |
| Author | Ursula K Heise |
| Series | Literature Culture Theory |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
| Year published | 1997-08-07 |
| Number of pages | 300 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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