TIME AS A WAY OF CONSTRUCTING MEANINGS IN NARRATIVE
Iuliia Viktorovna Zenina
Institute of Philosophy and Law, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk, Russia
Keywords: time, temporariness, narrative, transience, P. Ricoeur, mimesis, refiguration
Abstract
The paper aims to offer an analysis and specification of time, temporariness and transience within narrative and narrative research. Despite the substantive variety and methodological diversity of narrative research, the temporal order is recognized as its fundamental criterion. On the one hand, time specifies narrative and allows differentiating narrative from other types of discourse; on the other hand, it performs referential (communicative) and evaluative functions. In contrast to the Eurocentric and logocentric understanding of time, P. Ricoeur justifies the need to consider chronological (“episodic”, “hourly”) and non-chronological times, since it is the latter that plays a crucial role in the narration of the experience of the past. The result of this approach is the division of time: the time of past events, the time of narrative telling, and the time defined by the final event. The complication of time also occurs in terms of frequency, duration and order. The example of the analysis of “turning events” shows that it is the “configuration of time” that recontextualizes the experience of the past in terms of its consequences, which is true for both personally significant and collective narratives.,
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