| Description |
1 online resource (xvi, 296 pages) |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 289-292) and index. |
| Contents |
Part I. Time: Hunger and Desire: Consuming the past -- Die tat: what do I remember when I remember my wife said to get milk on the way home? -- Time and the literary vanishing point: a classroom conversation -- Multiple nows: a new geometry for human history -- The history of a house -- Shamans in turtlenecks -- Can we get inside the prehistoric sensibility? -- Saving time and paying for the world -- Part II. Accounting from Within the Need of Time: Reading and accounting -- Macchu Picchu -- From the Montagnais bar in Schefferville -- Accounting for Homer -- Rivers -- Doing in Greece -- Part III. Surplus Meaning: Directionalities -- Amulets -- Optical illusions, consequences in the daily, and stigmatic time -- Death after death -- Anticipation -- Points of contact -- Poetry and leadership -- Part IV. Settings of the Theophanic. |
| Summary |
"This book harvests the author's work, over several decades, on narrative and time, the place of imagination in conceptual thinking, and the underlying nature of historical accounts."--Publisher's description. |
| Note |
Print version record. |
| Subject |
Time in literature.
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Literature -- Philosophy.
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Discourse analysis, Narrative.
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Criticism.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- Semiotics & Theory.
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Criticism. (OCoLC)fst00883735
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Discourse analysis, Narrative. (OCoLC)fst00894947
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Literature -- Philosophy.
(OCoLC)fst01000005
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Time in literature. (OCoLC)fst01151108
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Will, Frederic. Time, accounts, surplus meaning. Newcastle : Cambridge Scholars, 2011 1443828904 (DLC) 2011488861 (OCoLC)752303711 |
| ISBN |
9781443830539 (electronic bk.) |
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1443830534 (electronic bk.) |
| Standard No. |
9786613142979 |
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