《历史的续集》为后现代主义提供了一个全面的定义，即时间的变革。伊丽莎白·迪兹·埃尔马斯利用后结构主义、女权主义、新历史主义和二十世纪科学的多元化理论方法，展示了我们主导的历史观念的危机，以及它在后现代主义节拍时代的消解。她在讨论文化身份的几个危机时扩大了这个定义：客体的危机、主体的危机和符号的危机。最后，她探讨了后现代主义中语言与时间的关系，提出了她自己关于后现代时间性的节奏性的引人注目的理论。由于时间的后现代建构在叙事写作中表现得如此清晰，这部作品的每一部分都被后现代叙事的“节奏部分”打断（罗比·格里耶的《嫉妒》、科尔特扎的《跳房子》和纳博科夫的《Ada》）；这些延伸的阅读资料提供了埃尔马思理论立场的具体说明。正如她在英国小说中广受好评的现实主义和共识一样，Ermarth涵盖了从人类学和视觉艺术到哲学和历史的各个学科。《历史的续集》以其跨学科的特点和对后现代主义的清晰定义吸引了所有对人文学科感兴趣的人。
Sequel to History: Postmodernism and the Crisis of Representational Time
Sequel to History offers a comprehensive definition of postmodernism as a reformation of time. Elizabeth Deeds Ermarth uses a diversified theoretical approach drawing on post-structuralism, feminism, new historicism, and twentieth-century science to demonstrate the crisis of our dominant idea of history and its dissolution in the rhythmic time of postmodernism. She enlarges this definition in discussions of several crises of cultural identity: the crisis of the object, the crisis of the subject, and the crisis of the sign. Finally, she explores the relation between language and time in post-modernism, proposing an arresting theory of her own about the rhythmic nature of postmodern temporality. Because the postmodern construction of time appears so clearly in narrative writing, each part of this work is punctuated by a “rhythm section” on a postmodern narrative (Robbe-Grillet’s Jealousy, Cortezar’s Hopscotch, and Nabokov’s Ada); these extended readings provide concrete illustrations of Ermarth’s theoretical positions. As in her critically acclaimed Realism and Consensus in the English Novel, Ermarth ranges across disciplines from anthropology and the visual arts to philosophy and history. For its interdisciplinary character and its lucid definition of postmodernism, Sequel to History will appeal to all those interested in the humanities.
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