Defoe and Fictional Time

Defoe and Fictional Time
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Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Total Pages : 292
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ISBN-10 : 9780820337715
ISBN-13 : 0820337714
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Book Synopsis Defoe and Fictional Time by : Paul K. Alkon

Download or read book Defoe and Fictional Time written by Paul K. Alkon and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2010-08-01 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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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