Time and Narrative, Volume 3 (Time & Narrative)
Contributors: Kathleen Blamey (Translator); David Pellauer (Translator)
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Published: February 11, 1988
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 362
ISBN-13: 9780226713359
Subjects: Literary studies: general; Theory Of Literature; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Philosophy; Rhetoric; Language Arts & Disciplines / Rhetoric; History; Mimesis in literature; Narration (Rhetoric); Plots (Drama, novel, etc.); Time in literature
First sentence: The major failure of the Augustinian theory is that it is unsuccessful in substituting a psychological conception of time for a cosmological one, despite the undeniable progress this psychology represents in relation to any cosmology of time.