Defoe and Fictional Time - Couverture souple

Alkon, Paul K.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0820337714 ISBN 13 : 9780820337715

Editeur : University of Georgia Press, 2010

Synopsis

Defoe and Fictional Time shows Defoe’s relevance to issues now central to criticism of the novel; relationships between narrative time and clock time, the influence of time concepts shared by writers and their audience, and above all the questions of how fiction shapes the phenomenal time of reading. Paul K. Alkon offers first a study of time in Defoe’s fiction, with glances at Richardson, Fielding, and Sterne; and second a theoretical discussion of time in fiction. Arguing that eighteenth-century views of history account for the strange chronologies in Captain Singleton, Colonel Jack, Moll Flanders, and Roxana, Alkon explores Defoe’s innovative use of narrative sequences, frequency, spatial form, chronology, settings, tempo, and the reader’s cumulative memories of a text. Defoe’s Journal of the Plague Year is the first portrayal of a public duration—passing time shared by an entire population during a crisis—ranking Defoe among the most creative writers who have explored the way in which fictional time may influence reading time.

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À propos de l?auteur

PAUL K. ALKON is Leo S. Bing Professor Emeritus of English and American Literature, University of Southern California, Los Angeles. He is the author of five books including Defoe and Fictional Time (Georgia), Science Fiction before 1900, and Winston Churchill's Imagination.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of Georgia Press
• Date d'édition: 2010
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0820337714
• ISBN 13: 9780820337715
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 290
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