From Modernism to Postmodernism - Gerhard Hoffman

The complex postmodern texts of, say, Barth, Coover, Pynchon, attain their form from a grid of such discourses of time, which lead to an unprecedented manifoldness and complication of temporality, and, as a result of this complexity of time versions, establish what is called “spatial form”, the simultaneity of (mutually exclusive) rivalling historical, mythical and existential notions of time which create a pattern of incongruity, of contradiction, of paradox.