Catching Time

Temporality, Interaction, and Cognition in the Novel

Isabelle Wentworth (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

172 Seiten

2024
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-032-57769-2 (ISBN)

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Catching Time updates our theories of narrative time, providing the first book-length study of enactive time in narrative. It proposes a new method for the analysis of narrative time which takes into account the fact that time is produced through our bodies in action and interaction with the surrounding world.

'Time travels in divers paces with divers people.' Shakespeare’s oft-quoted line contains a hidden ambiguity: not only do individual people experience time differently, but time travels in diverse paces when we are with diverse persons. The line articulates a contemporary understanding of subjective time: it is changed by interaction with our social environment. Interacting with other people—and even literary characters—can slow or quicken the experience of time. Interactive time, and the paradigm of enactive cognition in which it sits, calls for an expansion of traditional ideas of time in narrative. The first book-length study of interactive time in narrative, Catching Time explains how lived time and narrative time interpenetrate each other, so that the relational model of subjective time acts as a narrative function. Catching Time develops a novel, interdisciplinary framework, drawing on cognitive science, narratology, and linguistics, to understand the patterns of temporality that shape narrative.

Isabelle Wentworth is an early-career researcher in literary studies. She has a Ph.D. in cognitive literary criticism from the University of NSW. Her work has been published in a range of journals of literary criticism and cognitive science. Catching Time is her first monograph.

Chapter 1. Introduction to Catching Time, Chapter 2. Lived and Literary Narratives: From Embodiment to Emplotment, Chapter 3. 'Body Time': Don DeLillo's The Body Artist, Chapter 4. The Flow of Time: Lía Chara’s Agua, Chapter 5. ‘Home wasn’t built in a day’: the Temporality of Place in Lisa Gorton’s The Life of Houses, Chapter 6. Bodies and Technologies: Martín Felipe Castagnet’s Los cuerpos del verano, Chapter 7. Postface

Erscheinungsdatum	20.03.2024
Reihe/Serie	Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	453 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Sprachwissenschaft
ISBN-10	1-032-57769-X / 103257769X
ISBN-13	978-1-032-57769-2 / 9781032577692
Zustand	Neuware