Centuries' Ends, Narrative Means

Author/Contributor(s):	Newman, Robert
Publisher:	Stanford University Press
Date:	09/01/1996
Binding:	Hardcover
Condition:	NEW

This pathbreaking work uses the approaching conclusion of the second millennium as a context for discussing questions concerning temporal division and narrative continuity. It investigates assumptions about teleology and eschatology while exploring the ways in which temporal division affects the creation and production of cultural texts and, reciprocally, the ways in which narrative techniques, forms, and conventions shape, explain, and justify history.