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Time in fiction / Craig Bourne and Emily Caddick Bourne.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bourne, Craig, author.
- Bourne, Emily Caddick, author.
- Series:
- Oxford scholarship online.
- Oxford scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Time in literature.
- Time perception in literature.
- Fiction--History and criticism.
- Fiction.
- Genre:
- Literary criticism.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xvi, 263 pages) : illustrations
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2016.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- What can we learn about the world from engaging with fictional time-series-stories involving time travellers, recurring and rewinding time, and foreknowledge of the future? Craig Bourne and Emily Caddick Bourne show how we can use the complexities of fictional time to get to the core of the relation between truth in fiction and possibility.
- Contents:
- Theories of fiction
- Theories of time and tense
- Fictional time: A-series or B-series?
- The fictional future
- Branching fictional time?
- Pausing and rewinding fictional time?
- Recurring fictional time?
- Time travel
- Fictional duration and motion: discrete or continuous?
- Identity and development of characters and fictions
- Identity of fictional times
- True to a story vs true in a fiction
- Indefiniteness and its logic
- Incomplete time series.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-181967-0
- 0-19-166280-1
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