In "The Aesthetics of Passage", Heike Polster explores different methods of imaging and imagining the concept of time - as manifested in various contemporary novels by Thomas Lehr, W.G. Sebald, and Peter Handke, as well as the paintings of Jan Peter Tripp. Polster offers a theoretically insightful understanding of how these contemporary novels and artistic works conceptualize and envision time. "The Aesthetics of Passage" introduces her concept of "heterochronicity" as an interpretative tool to examine critical and creative strategies used to represent temporality and spatiality.