About Time : Narrative, Fiction and the Philosophy of Time
by
Mark Currie
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Hardback or Cased Book
ISBN-10
0748624244
ISBN-13
9780748624249
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Imprint
Edinburgh University Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Oct 20th, 2006
Print length
176 Pages
Weight
390 grams
Dimensions
24.30 x 16.40 x 1.70 cms
Product Classification:
Literary theoryLiterary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers
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About Time brings together ideas about time from narrative theory and philosophy.
Why have theorists approached narrative primarily as a form of retrospect? Mark Currie argues that anticipation and other forms of projection into the future are vital for an understanding of narrative and its effects in the world. In a series of arguments and readings, he offers an account of narrative as both anticipation and retrospection, linking fictional time experiments (in Ali Smith, Ian McEwan, Martin Amis and Graham Swift) to exhilarating philosophical themes about presence and futurity. This is an argument that shows that narrative lies at the heart of modern experiences of time, structuring the present, whether personal or collective, as the object of a future memory as much as it records the past.
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