Time is a key aspect of narrative. It can advance a story,
illuminate its role in our daily lives, and help us understand how
events unfold. In this groundbreaking interdisciplinary work,
Inderjeet Mani uses recent developments in linguistics and computer
science to analyze the use of time in narrative form. The
Imagined Moment outlines directions for an emerging discipline of
“corpus narratology,” an approach involving the computer
analysis and interpretation of multimillion-word collections of
narrative text. This approach, Mani explains, could alter the very
foundations of narrative theory. Accordingly, he develops a
computer representation for timelines and applies it to a variety
of literary works. Among these are such classics as One Hundred
Years of Solitude, “A Hunger Artist,” Swann’s Way, Jealousy,
Candide, and “The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber.” Along
the way, Mani considers stories embedded in temporal cycles; the
cognitive processes involved in the construal of events in time;
the modeling of narrative progression in terms of changes in
readers’ evaluation of characters; the study of variations of
tempo in fiction; and time in computer-mediated forms of
storytelling.
General
| Imprint: |
University of Nebraska Press
|
| Country of origin: |
United States |
| Series: |
Frontiers of Narrative |
| Release date: |
June 2010 |
| First published: |
June 2010 |
| Authors: |
Inderjeet Mani
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| Dimensions: |
216 x 140 x 23mm (L x W x T) |
| Format: |
Hardcover - Cloth over boards
|
| Pages: |
264 |
| ISBN-13: |
978-0-8032-2977-8 |
| Categories: |
Books
|
| LSN: |
0-8032-2977-1 |
| Barcode: |
9780803229778 |
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