The Collapse of Chronology: Towards the Spatialization of Time in Postmodernism

The postmodern novel reveals tendencies to deconstruct the conventional discourse of time, and to reconstruct a new discourse based on time spatialization. In an attempt to investigate how postmodernism proceeds towards time spatialization, this study poses and seeks to answer the following questions: What is time spatialization? When has it come into being? And what are the most plausible forms of spatialized time? Henceforth, the study will devise a theoretical framework that tends to locate and pursue the seeds and manifestations of the spatialization of time in certain literary and philosophical trends, trying to unravel how postmodernism rehabilitates and enhances this concept. Finally, the study presents, for illustration, the main forms of spatialized time that pervade the postmodern novel.