This book brings together a model of time and a model of language
to generate a new model of narrative, where different stories with
different temporalities and non-chronological modes of sequence can
tell of different worlds of human - and non-human - experience,
woven together (the 'texture of time') in the one narrative. The
work of Gerald Edelman on consciousness, J.T. Fraser on time, and
M.A.K. Halliday on language is introduced; the categories of
systemic functional linguistics are used for detailed analysis of
English narrative texts from different literary periods. A summary
chapter gives an overview of previous narrative studies and
theories, with extensive references. Chapters on 'temporalization'
and 'spatialization' of language contrast the importance of time in
narrative texts with the effect of 'grammatical metaphor', as
described by M.A.K. Halliday, for scientific discourse. Chapters on
prose fiction, poetry and the texts of digital culture chart
changes in the 'texture of time' with changes in the social
context: 'narrative as social semiotic'.
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