Narrative Worlds and the Texture of Time

Narrative Worlds and the Texture of Time

A Social-Semiotic Perspective

Huisman, Rosemary

Taylor & Francis Ltd

09/2022

188

Dura

Inglês

9781032260013

15 a 20 dias

544

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Acknowledgements

Preface

1 Human consciousness and the dual experience of time felt and time understood

2 'Spatialization' and scientific discourse, taking time out of language: Benjamin Whorf's 'configuration of experience' and M.A.K. Halliday's 'grammatical metaphor'

3 Levels of nature and worlds of time: J.T. Fraser's model of five levels of natural complexity associated with six worlds of different temporalities in the extended human umwelt

4 Narrative studies and time: a summary history of 'scientific' and 'philosophical' understandings of temporal meaning in narrative theory and narratology

5 Language and worlds of experience: the basic concepts of M.A.K Halliday's model of functional grammar, and its system of transitivity relating meaning to worlds of experience

6 'Temporalization' and narrative texts, keeping time in language: projection and narrative voice, expansion and narrative particularity

7 Narrative worlds and their temporalities: weaving the temporalities of different worlds with different modes of coherence in the texture of one narrative; dominant worlds in English literary texts, pre-printing to postmodern

8 The meaning of 'story': the mode of coherence of each thread/theory telling the temporality of one narrative world, with examples from different historical periods

9 Prose fiction and the texture of time: detailed study and comparison of extracts from three 'canonical' novels of classic realism, modernism and postmodernism

10 Poetry and the texture of time: extending the model of temporalities to the traditional, modernist and postmodern poem, and the complex poetic 'weaving' of temporal meanings

11 Digital culture and the texture of time, post postmodernism or ...

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Grammatical Metaphor;Fraser's Model;Higher Order Consciousness;Human Umwelt;Clause Complex;Primary Consciousness;Young Man;Systemic Functional Linguistics;Benjamin Whorf;Mental Process;Halliday's Model;Systemic Functional Theory;Ordinary Grammar;Denser;Text World Theory;Lexical Metaphor;Modernist Lyric;Clause Nexus;Narrative Gaming;Peirce's Triadic Model;Bergson's Influence;Back Cover Blurb;Semantic Drift;Legitimation Code Theory;Sunset Park