The Imagined Moment: Time, Narrative, and Computation

by Inderjeet Mani

Book Overview

Time is a key aspect of narrative. It can advance a story, illuminate its role in our daily lives, and help us understand how events unfold. In this groundbreaking interdisciplinary work, Inderjeet Mani uses recent developments in linguistics and computer science to analyze the use of time in narrative form. The Imagined Moment outlines directions for an emerging discipline of "corpus narratology," an approach involving the computer analysis and interpretation...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0803229771
• ISBN13: 9780803229778
• Release Date: June 2010
• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.7" x 8.6"