Series Editor's Preface; Acknowledgements; Introduction About About Time; Chapter One: The Present; Chapter Two: Prolepsis; Chapter Three: Temporality and Self-Distance; Chapter Four: Inner and Outer Time; Chapter Five: Backwards Time; Chapter Six: Fictional Knowledge; Chapter Seven: Tense Times; Bibliography; Index.
Mark Currie is Professor of Contemporary Writing at the University of East Anglia. His work is mostly in the fields of narrative theory, literary theory and contemporary fiction. He is the author of Postmodern Narrative Theory (1998) and Difference (2004) and the editor of Metafiction (1995).
...one of the first of many books we can expect to explore this newly enlarged literary critical terrain, and it supplies a complex, original and compelling avenue of entry...a very useful examination of a variety of thinkers who have received little attention in contemporary literary discussions of time...a rigorous, innovative, and revealing approach to the material. -- Jane Elliot, University of York Novel: A Forum on Fiction ...one of the first of many books we can expect to explore this newly enlarged literary critical terrain, and it supplies a complex, original and compelling avenue of entry...a very useful examination of a variety of thinkers who have received little attention in contemporary literary discussions of time...a rigorous, innovative, and revealing approach to the material.
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