About Time by Mark Currie
Why have theorists approached narrative primarily as a form of retrospect? Mark Currie argues that anticipation and other forms of projection into the future are vital for an understanding of narrative and its effects in the world. In a series of arguments and readings, he offers an account of narrative as both anticipation and retrospection, linking fictional time experiments (in Ali Smith, Ian McEwan, Martin Amis and Graham Swift) to exhilarating philosophical themes about presence and futurity. This is an argument that shows that narrative lies at the heart of modern experiences of time, structuring the present, whether personal or collective, as the object of a future memory as much as it records the past.-
Veering
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Mother Homer is Dead
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The Post-Romantic Predicament
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Volleys of Humanity
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Jacques Derrida and Paul de Man – Letters, 1968–1983
- Without Mastery
- Poetry in Painting
- Modern Thought in Pain
- Material Inscriptions
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Not Half No End
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To Follow
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Remains – Jacques Derrida
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The Unexpected
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Death-Drive
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Thinking What Comes, Volume 1
Mark Currie is Professor of Contemporary Literature at Queen Mary, University of London. His previous publications include Difference (Routledge, 2004), Postmodern Narrative Theory (Palgrave, 2nd edition, 2011) and Metafiction (Longman 1995).
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| ISBN 13 | 9780748642465 |
| ISBN 10 | 0748642463 |
| Title | About Time |
| Author | Mark Currie |
| Series | The Frontiers Of Theory |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Edinburgh University Press |
| Year published | 2010-10-12 |
| Number of pages | 176 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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