Time in Fiction and Narrative....but wait! There's more!

[alice wellintown]

> Anyone know of any good studies on time in fiction? Counting physical, psychological and Proustian.

A major topic of study; a million can be read on Time in Modern
Fiction; in Woolfe, in Joyce, in Eliot, in Proust, in James, and then
in Faulkner and then in Morrison....and on and on.

It is, perhaps, a topic more written about than consciousness (Conrad
and James, techniques and time in Modern Fiction) or the radical
redefiition of what is, or what is real, or, as epistemology merges
with ontology, how we represent this stream of consciousness, this
experience of time, with words. And, of course, like modern Hamlets,
it is impossible to say just what we mean, so after the Mirror and the
Lamp, the modernists and then the  new-romantics like Pynchon, are
Humpty-Dumped into circuit board of waiting for the crying of Godot.

So, you can't do better than Henri Bergson to start.

Also, Modernism, Daily Time and Everyday Life
Bryony Randall.