Whether we like it or not there was a perception that culturally something had changed, we may disagree on what that change entails but the perception itself has a reality that must be accounted for. ... In this sense postmodernism is defined in relation to modernism and specifically the high modernism of the inter- war years. The second sense concerns the notion of epistemic or epochal transition has taken place. ... Drawing on Lacan's work on schizophrenia and the Deleuze's notion of the nomadic or schizoid subject, Jameson argued that our sense of temporality was now radically d...

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They lose the sense of who they were and acted according to the signs and labels, which were put on different things. ... The narrative is in linear sense of time, which is where the readers are in the story. ... The cyclical pattern of time rests within the linear sense of time. ... Time in the novel moves in linear sense, circular sense and also sometimes stands still and stagnates. ... Colonel Aureliano Buendia's sense of time is changed by war and he forms a perception regarding cyclical nature of time. ...

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