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time and narrative
time and narrative builds on paul ricoeurs 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 . br ricoeur finds a healthy circle between time and narrative time is humanized to the extent that it portrays temporal experience . ricoeur proposes a theoretical model of this circle using augustines theory of time and aristotles theory of plot and further develops an original thesis of the mimetic function of narrative . he concludes with a comprehensive survey and critique of modern discussions of historical knowledge understanding and writing from aron and mandelbaum in the late 1930s to the work of the annales school and that of anglophone philosophers of history of the 1960s and 1970s . br this work in my view puts the whole problem of narrative not to mention philosophy of history on a new and higher plane of discussion . hayden white history and theory br superb ... . a fine point of entrance into the work of one of the eminent thinkers of the present intellectual age . joseph r. gusfield contemporary sociology br
discusses the conflict between subjective time and historical time looks at how fiction and historical writings create a model of temporal experience and considers the question of sense and reference