A Riddling Thing: A Study of Time in Five Twentieth-Century Novels

An important reflection on the twentieth-century preoccupation with time, this new analysis offers perceptive insights on the relationship between narrative and temporal structure and clock time as well as on the influence of time concepts on our expectations about writing and reading fiction. Pauline Beard explores Bergson's duration theory in Faulkner's Sound and Fury, Jung's notions of dream and racial unconscious in Djuna Barnes's Nightwood, Freud's psychoanalysis in Kurt Vonnegut's Slaug…