The Challenges to Historical Time in Postmodernism

by Wing-Mei Law

This dissertation, "The Challenges to Historical Time in Postmodernism" by Wing-mei, Law, 羅詠美, was obtained from The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong) and is being sold pursuant to Creative Commons: Attribution 3.0 Hong Kong License. The content of this dissertation has not been altered in any way. We have altered the formatting in order to facilitate the ease of printing and reading of the dissertation. All rights not granted by the above license are retained by the author. Abstract: Challenges to historical time 4 Abstract By examining postmodern narratives with chief focus on the film Before the Rain, the present thesis aims to explicate the challenges posed to our conventional concept of historical time in this postmodern era. The analysis establishes postmodern temporality as a dimension of events that is no longer neutral and homogenous. The subsequent implications for our existing concepts of chronology, continuity, causality, finitude, moment, crisis of the subject, and ultimately, crisis of reality and truth are discussed in details. The discussion is concluded with a question on the determinism/hope paradox for future critics and politician. DOI: 10.5353/th_b2981371 Subjects: Time in motion pictures Postmodernism

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