{"product_id":"the-architecture-of-narrative-time-erica-wickerson-9780198793274","title":"The Architecture of Narrative Time: Thomas Mann and the Problems of Modern Narrative","description":"Time matters to all of us. It dominates everyday discourse: diaries, schedules, clocks, working hours, opening times, appointments, weekdays and weekends, national holidays, religious festivals, birthdays, and anniversaries. But how do we, as unique individuals, subjectively \u003cem\u003eexperience\u003c\/em\u003e time? The slowness of an hour in a boring talk, the swiftness of a summer holiday, the fleetingness of childhood, the endless wait for pivotal news: these are experiences to which we all can relate and of which we commonly speak. How can a writer not only report such experiences but also \u003cem\u003econjure\u003c\/em\u003e them up in words so that readers share the frustration, the excitement, the anticipation, are on tenterhooks with a narrator or character, or in melancholic mourning for a time long-since passed, which we never experienced ourselves? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eErica Wickerson suggests that the evocation of subjective temporal experience occurs in every sentence, on every page, at every plot turn, in any narrative. \u003cem\u003eThe Architecture of Narrative Time\u003c\/em\u003e offers a new template for understanding narrative time that combines close readings with analysis of the structural overview. It enables new ways of reading Thomas Mann; but also new ways of conceptualising narrative time in any literary work, not only in Mann's fiction and not only in texts that foreground the narration of time. The range of Mann's novels, novellas, and short stories is compared with other nineteenth- and twentieth-century works in German and in English to suggest a comprehensive approach to considering time in narrative.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Erica Wickerson\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0198793278\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780198793274\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Oxford University Press, USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/10\/2017\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 230\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.70lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.60h x 5.40w x 0.90d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 01\/01\/2018","brand":"Erica Wickerson","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44054688825599,"sku":"9780198793274","price":110.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_114045e3-b60d-4c3d-bfde-c4e8decbcc07.jpg?v=1685031410","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-architecture-of-narrative-time-erica-wickerson-9780198793274","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}