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Record Nr.

UNINA9910461193703321

Autore

Front Sonia

Titolo

Shapes of time in British twenty-first century quantum fiction / / by Sonia Front

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Newcastle upon Tyne, England : , : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, , 2015

©2015

ISBN

1-4438-8203-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (180 p.)

Disciplina

823.9209

Soggetti

English fiction - 21st century - History and criticism

English fiction

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Sommario/riassunto

This book addresses the notion of time and temporality and its various conceptualizations in the theories of the new physics, utilized as a thematic and formal framework in the British novel of the twenty-first century. As the Newtonian conception of reality does not provide a reliable framework within which to situate human experience and generate meaning, fiction writers have recognized quantum mechanics as a potent source from which to draw in search of new metaphors. The quantum has become a part of the understanding of reality, and its concepts and assumptions have been absorbed into the