Narrative and Freedom: The Shadows of Time

by Gary Saul Morson

Book Overview

In this important and controversial book, one of our leading literary theorists presents a major philosophical statement about the meaning of literature and the shape of literary texts. Drawing on works by the Russian writers Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, and Chekhov, by other writers as diverse as Sophocles, Cervantes, and George Eliot, by thinkers as varied as William James, Mikhail Bakhtin, and Stephen Jay Gould, and from philosophy, the Bible, television,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300068751
• ISBN13: 9780300068757
• Release Date: September 1996
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 348 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.2"