Time and Narrative, Volume 2

by Paul Ricœur

Book Overview

In volume 1 of this three-volume work, Paul Ricoeur examined the relations between time and narrative in historical writing. Now, in volume 2, he examines these relations in fiction and theories of literature.

Ricoeur treats the question of just how far the Aristotelian concept of "plot" in narrative fiction can be expanded and whether there is a point at which narrative fiction as a literary form not only blurs at the edges but ceases to...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226713342
• ISBN13: 9780226713342
• Release Date: September 1990
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"