The architecture of narrative time : Thomas Mann and the problems of modern narrative / Erica Wickerson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wickerson, Erica, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mann, Thomas, 1875-1955--Criticism and interpretation.

Mann, Thomas.

Time in literature.

Narration (Rhetoric).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (214 pages) : illustrations, tables

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2017.

Summary:

Time matters to all of us. It dominates everyday discourse: diaries, schedules, clocks, working hours, opening times, appointments, weekdays and weekends, national holidays, religious festivals, birthdays, and anniversaries. But how do we, as unique individuals, subjectively experience time? How can a writer not only report such experiences but also conjure them up in words so that readers share the frustration, the excitement, the anticipation, are on tenterhooks with a narrator or character, or in melancholic mourning for a time long-since passed, which we never experienced ourselves? Erica Wickerson suggests that the evocation of subjective temporal experience occurs in every sentence, on every page, at every plot turn, in any narrative. The book offers a new template for understanding narrative time that combines close readings with analysis of the structural overview.

Notes:

This edition previously issued in print: 2017.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-19-251172-6

0-19-183516-1

0-19-251171-8