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Chronoschisms

Paperback • 1997 • English

Chronoschisms

By Ursula K. Heise

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In Chronoschisms Ursula Heise explores the way developments in transportation, communication and information technology have led to the emergence of a new 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. Drawin...Show more

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9780521555449

Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Published year

1997

Language

English

Original title

Chronoschisms

Format

Paperback

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