Defoe and Fictional Time |
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| Author:
| Alkon, Paul K. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-8203-3771-5 |
| Publication Date: | Aug 2010 |
| Publisher: | University of Georgia Press
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $32.95 |
Book Description:
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Alkon offers first a study of time in Defoe's fiction that 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 the questions of how fiction shapes the phenomenal time of reading.
Alkon offers first a study of time in Defoe's fiction that 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 the questions of how fiction shapes the phenomenal time of reading.