Time

Shifts of Time in James Joyce’s A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man: A Narratological Perspective

“…This dialogue occupies nearly eight pages of this novel (pp. [21][22][23][24][25][26][27][28][29]. This is another case of scene since there is equal amount of time in both story and discourse levels.…”

“…Rimmon-Kenan describes: "By narrative fiction I mean the narration of a succession of fictional events" (2002, p. 2). Yet, others say that narratives are understood as representations of event-sequences, are defined and differentiated by their temporality (Scheffel, Weixler, & Werner, 2013).…”

A Narratological Study and Analysis of: The Concept of Time in William Faulkner’s “A Rose for Emily”

“…The concept of time is one of the components of narratology. Scheffel et al (2013) states that time is not observable but it becomes manifest and thus perceivable in various changes (e.g. event) (p. 1).…”

“…Narratives, especially short stories, are made up of some components of narratology, one of which is 'time'. Scheffel, Weixler, and Werner (2013) define time in a broad sense as 'time is a constitutive element of worlds and a fundamental category of human experience' (p. 1). They then define time in a narrower sense.…”

“…The present study is based on Gennette's model of time which relies on the two concepts of 'discourse time' and 'story time'. 'Discourse time' is the time 'it takes to persue the discourse' (Chatman, 1978, p. 62); 'story time' emerges from 'the interplay of space, events, characters, and plot structure (Scheffel et al, 2013). To borrow Genette's term, story time and discourse time are deformed in their duration i.e.…”