About Time : Narrative, Fiction and the Philosophy of Time

Name: About Time
Brand: Edinburgh University Press
SKU: 9780748642465
Price: 4700 KES
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ISBN: 9780748642465

by Mark Currie

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Format Paperback / softback

Book Series The Frontiers of Theory

ISBN-10 0748642463

ISBN-13 9780748642465

Publisher Edinburgh University Press

Imprint Edinburgh University Press

Country of Manufacture GB

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date Oct 12th, 2010

Print length 176 Pages

Weight 284 grams

Dimensions 23.40 x 16.00 x 1.00 cms

Product Classification: Literary theory Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers

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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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