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" Postmodern science fiction and temporal imagination / "
Elana Gomel
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BL
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643332
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dltt
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| Main Entry
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Gomel, Elana
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Postmodern science fiction and temporal imagination /\ Elana Gomel
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| Publication Statement
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New York :: Continuum,, c2010
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| Series Statement
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Continuum literary studies
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xi, 177 p. ;; 25 cm
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9781441123954
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: 1441123954
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [165]-174) and index
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| Contents
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Introduction: Time enough for world -- Time machines: H.G. Wells and the invention of postmodernity -- Strangled by the time loop: paradoxes of determinism -- 'My name is might-have-been': contingency, counterfactuals and moral choice -- Everyday apocalypse: the ethics and aesthetics of the end of time -- Conclusion: Beyond millennium
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Science fiction-- History and criticism
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Time in literature
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Postmodernism (Literature)
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| Dewey Classification
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809.3/8762
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PN3433.5.G66 2010
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