The Inescapable Metaphor: How Time and Meaning Become Space When We Think about Narrative
Stories go places. It is impossible to talk about narrative without using spatial terms, such as ‘plotline’, ‘narrative thread’, ‘twists and turns’, ‘pacing’ or ‘circularity’. In such metaphors, the two essential elements of narrative, time and meaning, are consistently replaced by distance and dire...
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John Hopkins University Press
2012
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