The postmodern chronotype [i.e. chronotope] : reading space and time in contemporary fiction

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The postmodern chronotype [i.e. chronotope] : reading space and time in contemporary fiction

Paul Smethurst

(Postmodern studies, 30)

Rodopi, 2000

タイトル別名

The postmodern chronotope

The postmodern chronotype

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注記

Some printings has a misprint with "chronotype" in t.p. and cover

Publisher varies: Brill

Bibliography: p. 321-330

Includes index

内容説明・目次

内容説明

The Postmodern Chronotope is an innovative interdisciplinary study of the contemporary. It will be of special interest to anyone interested in relations between postmodernism, geography and contemporary fiction. Some claim that postmodernism questions history and historical bases to culture; some say it is about loss of affect, loss of depth models, and superficiality; others claim it follows from the conditions of post-industrial society; and others cite commodification of place, Disneyfication, simulation and post-tourist spectacle as evidence that postmodernism is wedded to late capitalism. Whatever postmodernism is, or turns out to have been, it is bound up in rethinking and reworking space and time, and Paul Smethurst's intervention here is to introduce the postmodern chronotope as a term through which these spatial and temporal shifts might be apprehended. The postmodern chronotope constitutes a postmodern world-view and postmodern way of seeing. In a sense it is the natural successor to a modernist way of seeing defined through cubism, montage and relativity. The book is arranged as follows: * Part 1 is an interdisciplinary study casting a wide net across a range of cultural, social and scientific activity, from chaos theory to cinema, from architecture to performance art, from IT to tourism. * Part 2 offers original readings of a selection of postmodern novels, including Graham Swift's Waterland and Out of this World, Peter Ackroyd's Hawksmoor and First Light, Alasdair Gray's Lanark, J. M. Coetzee's Foe, Marina Warner's Indigo, Caryl Phillips' Cambridge, and Don DeLillo's The Names and Ratner's Star.

目次

Part I The Postmodern Chronotope 1 Introduction and Preliminaries on Postmodernism 2 Postmodernism's Spatial Turn: From Spatialisation to the Production of Space 3 The Chronotope as Idea, Optic and Weltanschauung Part II Reading Space and Time in Contemporary Fiction 4 The City in Late Capitalist Fantasy Alasdair Gray, Lanark 5 Spatial Historiographies Graham Swift, Waterland 6 Chronotopes of Reversible Time Peter Ackroyd, Hawksmoor and First Light Ian McEwan, The Child in Time 7 Post-colonial Island Chronotypes: Michel Tournier, Friday J.M. Coetzee, Foe Caryl Phillips, Cambridge Marina Warner, Indigo 8 The Trope of Placelessness: Graham Swift, Out of this World Don DeLillo, Ratner's Star and The Names Notes List of Novels Bibliography Index

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詳細情報

  • NII書誌ID(NCID)
    BA5266918X
  • ISBN
    • 9042015136
  • 出版国コード
    ne
  • タイトル言語コード
    eng
  • 本文言語コード
    eng
  • 出版地
    Amsterdam
  • ページ数/冊数
    335 p.
  • 大きさ
    23 cm
  • 親書誌ID
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