The ficcional time in literature and it’s models

Authors

  • Andrey Kofman A. M. Gorky Institute of World Literature of the Russian Academy of Sciences

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2317-4765.rus.2020.168663

Keywords:

Objective time, Subjective time, Historical time, Mythological time, Reversible time

Abstract

 

Abstract: The article describes the features of artistic time in literature and its main models illustrating them by examples from Russian literature. The specificity of artistic time is revealed in comparison with objective time. It is shown that the main characteristics of objective time, such as objectivity, linearity, irreversibility, monotony and continuity in artistic time are not maintained, because it is always subjective time. This is evident when analyzing the historical time model, which claims to reproduce objective time. Next, we describe four more time models that are most commonly used in the literature: mythological time, which is distinguished by it’s cyclic character, reversible time, moving from the present to the past, the model of stopped time and the integrating time model, which represents the existing past, present, and future in an undifferentiated unity.

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Published

2020-12-18

How to Cite

Kofman, A. (2020). The ficcional time in literature and it’s models. RUS (Sao Paulo), 11(17), 166-189. https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2317-4765.rus.2020.168663