Narrative and Freedom (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Gary Saul Morson
- First Published: 1994
- Type of Work: Literary theory and criticism
- Genres: Criticism, Nonfiction
- Subjects: Philosophy or philosophers, Authors or writers, Literature, Historians, Creative process, Drama or dramatists, Life, philosophy of, Time, Russia or Russian people
The end of the Cold War and the approach of a new millennium have given increased urgency to one of the central preoccupations of this century: to comprehend the nature of time. Such a preoccupation was the inevitable consequence of Albert Einstein’s theories of relativity and the conceptualization of space as a time-conditioned phenomenon. Yet Einstein’s was hardly the only challenge to inherited notions. Even now, literate publics still strive to grasp the implications of time as described by uniformitarianism in geology. Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution by natural...
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