2 options
The imagined moment : time, narrative, and computation / Inderjeet Mani.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Mani, Inderjeet.
- Series:
- Frontiers of narrative.
- Frontiers of narrative
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Time in literature.
- Fiction--History and criticism.
- Fiction.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (262 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, 2010.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Time is a key aspect of narrative. It can advance a story, illuminate its role in our daily lives, and help us understand how events unfold. In this groundbreaking interdisciplinary work, Inderjeet Mani uses recent developments in linguistics and computer science to analyze the use of time in narrative form. The Imagined Moment outlines directions for an emerging discipline of "corpus narratology, " an approach involving the computer analysis and interpretation of multimillion-word collections of narrative text. This approach, Mani explains, could alter the very foundations of narrative theory. Accordingly, he develops a computer representation for timelines and applies it to a variety of literary works. Among these are such classics as One Hundred Years of Solitude, "A Hunger Artist, " Swann's Way, Jealousy, Candide, and "The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber." Along the way, Mani considers stories embedded in temporal cycles; the cognitive processes involved in the construal of events in time; the modeling of narrative progression in terms of changes in readers' evaluation of characters; the study of variations of tempo in fiction; and time in computer-mediated forms of storytelling.
- Contents:
- Timelines
- Stories within stories
- Computing timelines
- Calendar times
- Time in mind
- Characters in time
- Tracking narrative progression
- Time management
- Digital storytelling.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786612749360
- 9781282749368
- 1282749366
- 9780803230422
- 0803230427
- OCLC:
- 664682085
The Penn Libraries is committed to describing library materials using current, accurate, and responsible language. If you discover outdated or inaccurate language, please fill out this feedback form to report it and suggest alternative language.