Time and Narrative (Time & Narrative)
Publisher: Univ of Chicago Pr (Tx); University of Chicago Press (Tx)
Published: December 1985
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 216
ISBN-13: 9780226713335
Subjects: Literary studies: general; General; Novel; Theory Of Literature; Philosophy; 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.