THE CONCEPT OF TIME IN AMERICAN LITERATURE THROUGH THE LENS OF METAMODERN PERCEPTION

Abstract

Time, as a basic concept of physics and philosophy, being an obligatory coordinate of our world, is present in modern American literature, both as an artistic effect that adorns the narrative, a tool for creating artistic reality, and as a system that changes the way of thinking. The action of the laws of time extends both to a person and to a literary work, but modern literature adapts these laws to fiction needs and experiments with its flow within a work. This article examines the artistic aspects of various concepts of time in modern American literature (starting from the end of XX to its current state) and their influence on the reader through the lens of the transition from postmodern to metamodern philosophical worldview provoked by the actual level of science development, globalization, and digitalization as well as the interaction of human perception of these processes and reactions to them with contemporary literary trends.