Time and Narrative, Volume 1

by Paul Ricœur

Book Overview

Time and Narrative builds on Paul Ricoeur's earlier analysis, in The Rule of Metaphor, of semantic innovation at the level of the sentence. Ricoeur here examines the creation of meaning at the textual level, with narrative rather than metaphor as the ruling concern.

Ricoeur finds a "healthy circle" between time and narrative: time is humanized to the extent that it portrays temporal experience. Ricoeur proposes a theoretical...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226713326
• ISBN13: 9780226713328
• Release Date: September 1990
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 281 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.8" x 9.2"