Chronoschisms: Time, Narrative, and Postmodernism

Introduction Part I. Chronoschisms: 1. From soft clocks to hardware: narrative and the postmodern experience of time Part 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 Part III. Posthistories: 5. t: time's assembly in Gravity's Rainbow 6. Effect predicts cause: Brooke-Rose's Out Epilogue: Schismatrix Bibliography.