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About time : narrative, fiction and the philosophy of time / Mark Currie.
LIBRA PR830.T5 C97 2007
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Currie, Mark, 1962-
- Series:
- Frontiers of theory
- The frontiers of theory
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English fiction--History and criticism.
- English fiction.
- Narration (Rhetoric).
- Time in literature.
- Time--Philosophy.
- Physical Description:
- ix, 160 pages ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2007]
- Summary:
- Mark Currie brings together theoretical and philosophical ideas about time in his analysis of anticipation and other forms of projection into the future. In the work of such writers as Ali Smith, Ian McEwan, Martin Amis, and Graham Swift, he considers "prolepsis" or "flashforward," in which a character experiences the present as the object of a future memory, and outlines a set of questions about tense and temporal reference that redefines the function of stories in contemporary culture. He also revisits traditional questions about the difference between literature and philosophy in relation to knowledge of time.
- Contents:
- Series Editor's Preface vi
- 1 Introduction: About About Time 1
- 2 The Present 8
- 3 Prolepsis 29
- 4 Temporality and Self-Distance 51
- 5 Inner and Outer Time 73
- 6 Backwards Time 87
- 7 Fictional Knowledge 107
- 8 Tense Times 137.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliography and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780748624249
- 0748624244
- OCLC:
- 122926122
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