The Novel and the Moving Now

Currie, Mark (2009) The Novel and the Moving Now. Novel, 42 (2). 318–325. ISSN 1945-8509

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Abstract

This essay considers the novel as a model of time, specifically as a model for a moving now or nunc movens conception of time. It examines a range of problems with this conception of the novel and argues that the problems themselves are where the interest lies: in the difference in the status of the future between a novel and lived experience and in the process of actively making present the events of a novel referred to in retrospect. The essay offers a hermeneutic circle between presentification and depresentification as an account of the relationship between the time of a novel and the time of life and argues that it is the existence of the future in a written narrative that is the most significant aspect of this circle. The already-there-ness of the future in written narrative, it is argued, gives to the concepts of anticipation and prolepsis a new importance for the understanding of the novel as a temporal structure.

Item Type:	Article
Faculty \ School:	Faculty of Arts and Humanities > School of Literature and Creative Writing (former - to 2011) Faculty of Arts and Humanities > School of Literature, Drama and Creative Writing
Depositing User:	EPrints Services
Date Deposited:	01 Oct 2010 13:58
Last Modified:	14 Aug 2023 14:30
URI:	https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/10312
DOI:	10.1215/00295132-2009-021

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