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

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second....Bergson was important to many we keep bringing up. Eliot, trying to find
it's still center.

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On Oct 3, 2012, at 6:00 AM, alice wellintown <alicewellintown at gmail.com> wrote:

>> 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.