Wentworth, Isabelle,

Catching time : temporality, interaction, and cognition / Isabelle Wentworth. - New York, NY : Routledge, 2024. - 1 online resource. - Literary criticism and cultural theory .

""Time travels in divers paces with divers people." Shakespeare's oft-quoted line contains a hidden ambiguity: not only do individual people experience time differently, but time travels in diverse paces when we are with diverse persons. The line articulates a contemporary understanding of subjective time: it is changed by interaction with our social environment. Interacting with other people--and even literary characters--can slow or quicken the experience of time. Interactive time, and the paradigm of enactive cognition in which it sits, calls for an expansion of traditional ideas of time in narrative. The first book-length study of interactive time in narrative, Catching Time explains how lived time and narrative time interpenetrate each other, so that the relational model of subjective time acts as a narrative function. Catching Time develops a novel, interdisciplinary framework, drawing on cognitive science, narratology, and linguistics, to understand the patterns of temporality that shape narrative"--

9781003440918 1003440916 9781003859161 100385916X 9781003859222 1003859224

10.4324/9781003440918 doi


Time in literature.
Cognition in literature.
Social interaction in literature.
Narration (Rhetoric)--Psychological aspects.
Time--Psychological aspects.
LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
PSYCHOLOGY / Cognitive Psychology

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