TY  - BOOK
AU  - Julia Seltnerajch
PY  - 2024
CY  - Berlin, Germany
PB  - Peter Lang Verlag
SN  - 2364-2882
SN  - 9783631921951
TI  - Paul Auster's (Post)modern Chronotopes:
T2  - Space, Time, Genre
DO  - 10.3726/b22105
UR  - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1507286
N2  - The study focuses on spatio-temporal relations and their dependence on literary genres in Paul Auster’s fiction. The author examines how selected novels reflect and redefine both the representation of space and formulaic patterns of genres they can be categorised as. Semiotic spaces created by Auster share some common features, such as dislocation, diversity or incongruity. Read as the postmodern ones, they are remodellings of novelistic chronotopes defined by, for instance, the tradition of detective fiction or the road novel. As such, Auster’s dialogue with tradition in terms of genre-specified features and models of space has led to the emergence of generic variants exhibiting tenets slightly or extensively altered in comparison to their predecessors.
KW  - chronotope, space-time, semiotics, semiotic space, locked room, road, room, mind, city, Paul Auster, detective fiction, psychological fiction, road novel, Bildungsroman, postmodernism, metafiction, genre evolution, postmodern genre variants, postmodern detective
LA  - English
ER  -