The present volume is targeted at an interdisciplinary audience, i.e. partly at literary scholars/narratologists interested in time theory outside their field, and partly at scholars outside literary studies who in turn would like to learn more about such concepts created in narrative theory. The anthology assembles both English-speaking and German contributions to a narrative theory of time constructs which have thus far not been translated into English, but have – directly or indirectly – inspired the theoretical discourse across disciplines.

The common methodological focus of the articles assembled here concerns the way in which the experience of chronological structure and ordering in (experienced or imagined) phenomena can be traced back to a logic of time "constructs". Narrative time constructs – that is: models of chronological ordering which we generate while processing narratively encoded information – constitute a particularly rich body of examples. How we experience time is directly linked to how we narrate information, and how we re-construct principles of temporal ordering in the narrated content. The logic of narrative time constructs has therefore been of interest not only to narrative theory, but also to philosophy and cognitive science, and more recently to computational approaches toward modelling human time experience.

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Information

Publisher

De Gruyter

Year

2011

ISBN

9783110227185

Edition

Topic

Literature

Subtopic

European Literary Criticism

Index

Literature

Acknowledgements
Foreword
The Tenses of Verbs
Time Experience and Personhood
Constituting Time through Action and Discourse
Time, Tense and Topology
The Significance of Time in Narrative Art
The Timelessness of Poetry
The Time References of Narration
Time Structure in the Contemporary Novel
Story-time and Fact-sequence-time
The Temporality Effect. Towards a Process Model of Narrative Time Construction
The Flow of Time in Narrative. An Artificial Intelligence Perspective
Bibliography: A Guide to Further Reading
Subject Index
Name Index