Time: From Concept to Narrative Construct: A Reader (Narratologia: Contributions to Narrative Theory)

✍ Scribed by Jan Christoph Meister, Wilhelm Schernus (editors)

• Publisher: Walter De Gruyter Inc
• Year: 2011
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 285
• Series: Narratologia: Contributions to Narrative Theory volume 29
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This anthology presents a selection of articles on the subject of 'time'. Among these are a number of German language contributions presented in English translation for the first time ever, including seminal articles by Gunter Muller, Kate Hamburger and Hans Reichenbach. The authors address their shared topic from three major disciplinary angles: philosophy, narrative theory, and cognitivist studies. As our experience of time is intrinsically linked to our ability to recount and narrate events, the productive design and receptive re-construction of time constructs plays a particularly important role in narrative theory.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents......Page 6
Acknowledgements......Page 8
Foreword......Page 10
The Tenses of Verbs......Page 24
Time Experience and Personhood......Page 36
Constituting Time through Action and Discourse......Page 52
Time, Tense and Topology......Page 72
The Significance of Time in Narrative Art......Page 90
The Timelessness of Poetry......Page 108
The Time References of Narration......Page 124
Time Structure in the Contemporary Novel......Page 132
Story-time and Fact-sequence-time......Page 166
The Temporality Effect. Towards a Process Model of Narrative Time Construction......Page 194
The Flow of Time in Narrative. An Artificial Intelligence Perspective......Page 240
Bibliography: A Guide to Further Reading......Page 260
Subject Index......Page 276
Name Index......Page 280