Meister / Schernus Time

From Concept to Narrative Construct: A Reader
1. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-3-11-022718-5
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, Band 29, 281 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 230 mm

Reihe: Narratologia

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.

Zielgruppe

Academics, Institutes, Libraries

Autoren/Hrsg.

Meister, Jan Christoph

Schernus, Wilhelm

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Stoffe, Motive und Themen
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturtheorie: Poetik und Literaturästhetik
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Zeit: Philosophische, Psychologische, Soziale Aspekte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1;Contents;6
2;Acknowledgements;8
3;Foreword;10
4;The Tenses of Verbs;24
5;Time Experience and Personhood;36
6;Constituting Time through Action and Discourse;52
7;Time, Tense and Topology;72
8;The Significance of Time in Narrative Art;90
9;The Timelessness of Poetry;108
10;The Time References of Narration;124
11;Time Structure in the Contemporary Novel;132
12;Story-time and Fact-sequence-time;166
13;The Temporality Effect. Towards a Process Model of Narrative Time Construction;194
14;The Flow of Time in Narrative. An Artificial Intelligence Perspective;240
15;Bibliography: A Guide to Further Reading;260
16;Subject Index;276
17;Name Index;280

Über Autor(innen)

Meister, Jan Christoph
Jan Christoph Meister and Wilhelm Schernus, University of Hamburg.

Jan Christoph Meister and Wilhelm Schernus, University of Hamburg, Germany.