| Description |
xii, 286 pages ; 23 cm |
| Series |
Literature, culture, theory ; 23 |
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Literature, culture, theory.
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| Contents |
Pt. I. Chronoschisms. 1. From soft clocks to hardware: narrative and the postmodern experience of time -- Pt. II. Time Forks and Time Loops. 2. Number, chance and narrative: Julio Cortazar's Rayuela. 3. "Repetitions, contradictions and omissions": Robbe-Grillet's Topologie d'une cite fantome. 4. Print time: text and duration in Beckett's How It Is -- Pt. III. Posthistories. 5. [delta]t: time's assembly in Gravity's Rainbow. 6. Effect predicts cause: Brooke-Rose's Out -- Epilogue: Schismatrix |
| Notes |
Based on the author's thesis--Stanford University; parts of the work were first presented as conference papers, 1991-1995; chapter 4 is a revision of an article previously published 1992 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 266-281) and index |
| Subject |
Literature and science.
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Literature, Modern -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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Postmodernism (Literature)
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Time in literature.
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| LC no. |
96036668 |
| ISBN |
0521554861 (hardcover) |
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0521555442 (paperback) |
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9780521554862 |
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9780521555449 (paperback) |
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