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concept of time in "2001: A Space Odyssey"
Title
The concept of time in "2001: A Space Odyssey".
Creator
Ramnath, Rishi S., Florida Atlantic University, Buckton, Oliver
Abstract/Description
The concept of time in Stanley Kubrick's 1968 film 2001: A Space Odyssey is examined from social, biological, psychological, and spiritual perspectives. In Arthur C. Clarke's novel, his version of the film, he treats the nature of time as a cyclical process. He eventually explains that the notion of physical time is non-existent or an impermanent illusion. While Clarke's novel interprets time, the film projects and manipulates the nature of space and time, which spectators may experience as...
Show moreThe concept of time in Stanley Kubrick's 1968 film 2001: A Space Odyssey is examined from social, biological, psychological, and spiritual perspectives. In Arthur C. Clarke's novel, his version of the film, he treats the nature of time as a cyclical process. He eventually explains that the notion of physical time is non-existent or an impermanent illusion. While Clarke's novel interprets time, the film projects and manipulates the nature of space and time, which spectators may experience as reality. Time's direction can be viewed or experienced as a cycle from an Eastern philosophical perspective. However, a Western interpretation requires a compromise between two separate directions of time, one as a cycle, the other as linear. The film and novel ultimately negates the direction of linear time through the appearance of the mysterious monolith, which transcends and reincarnates human beings.
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Date Issued
2003
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/13082
Subject Headings
Kubrick, Stanley--Criticism and interpretation, 2001, a space odyssey (Motion picture), Time in literature, Space and time
Format
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Narrating the chronotope of the saint: Ordinary time in the novel
Title
Narrating the chronotope of the saint: Ordinary time in the novel.
Creator
Mason, Eric Daniel., Florida Atlantic University, Faraci, Mary
Abstract/Description
All narratives in which the human image is presented establish an interconnectedness of time and space, what Mikhail Bakhtin calls the chronotope. When Victor Hugo wrote Les Miserables, he drew upon a historical chronotope originating in the narratives that accompanied the spread of Christianity, and which found its purest distillate in the genre of hagiography---the narrating of the lives of saints. When the mode of sacred time established in the conventionally brief hagiologic narrative,...
Show moreAll narratives in which the human image is presented establish an interconnectedness of time and space, what Mikhail Bakhtin calls the chronotope. When Victor Hugo wrote Les Miserables, he drew upon a historical chronotope originating in the narratives that accompanied the spread of Christianity, and which found its purest distillate in the genre of hagiography---the narrating of the lives of saints. When the mode of sacred time established in the conventionally brief hagiologic narrative, which depended on a linear progression having unity with God as its end, is integrated into the extended form of the novel, it finds itself at odds with the ubiquitous adventure time---the random disjunctions of time and space without which there is no plot. The delineated spaces of roads and gardens in Les Miserables serve to concretize the mediation between these two modes of time, resulting in the ordinary time of the novel.
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Date Issued
2001
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/12796
Subject Headings
Hagiography, Time in literature, Narration (Rhetoric), Hugo, Victor,--1802-1885--Misérables
Format
Document (PDF)
PATTERN OF DISTANCING IN THREE STORIES BY HENRY JAMES
Title
A PATTERN OF DISTANCING IN THREE STORIES BY HENRY JAMES.
Creator
GLADDING, MARTHA W., Florida Atlantic University, Pearce, Howard D.
Abstract/Description
Henry James's structuring of time and space in three short stories is intrinsically related to his overall treatment of the development of the characters' consciousnesses. Caroline Spencer ("Four Meetings"), Paul Overt ("The Lesson of the Master"), and John Marcher ("The Beast in the Jungle") are continually faced, in che present context of their experience, with knm·1ledge and reality which they are unable to recognize. Only after extended absences from other characters do they perceive...
Show moreHenry James's structuring of time and space in three short stories is intrinsically related to his overall treatment of the development of the characters' consciousnesses. Caroline Spencer ("Four Meetings"), Paul Overt ("The Lesson of the Master"), and John Marcher ("The Beast in the Jungle") are continually faced, in che present context of their experience, with knm·1ledge and reality which they are unable to recognize. Only after extended absences from other characters do they perceive truths about themselves and others in scenes of personal loss and failure. Distancing in time and space is ultimately necessary, in the structures of these three stories and the consciousnesses of their characters, for emotional and intellectual awareness. This pattern is noticeable in James's early period and becomes progressively more refined from the middle to the late fiction.
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Date Issued
1978
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/13932
Subject Headings
James, Henry,--1843-1916--Criticism and interpretation., Space and time in literature.
Format
Document (PDF)
Revisiting Christopher Fry: Sacred temporality on a modern stage
Title
Revisiting Christopher Fry: Sacred temporality on a modern stage.
Creator
Harriman, Lucas H., Florida Atlantic University, Martin, Thomas L.
Abstract/Description
Christopher Fry was instrumental in the early twentieth-century resurgence of plays dealing with religious themes. This movement can at first be seen as anomalous within the era of modernism, when many writers and theorists considered religious sentiment to be a barrier to the more crucial aspects of living authentically within a modern society haunted by history. Nevertheless, Fry's particular appropriation of a sacred conceptualization of time on the modern stage reveals a degree of...
Show moreChristopher Fry was instrumental in the early twentieth-century resurgence of plays dealing with religious themes. This movement can at first be seen as anomalous within the era of modernism, when many writers and theorists considered religious sentiment to be a barrier to the more crucial aspects of living authentically within a modern society haunted by history. Nevertheless, Fry's particular appropriation of a sacred conceptualization of time on the modern stage reveals a degree of congruity between him and his contemporaries in their varied attempts to represent transcendent value on the stage without simultaneously removing the audience from their own historical present. In The Boy with a Cart, Fry's superimposition of the life of a tenth-century saint onto modern experience infuses the temporality of the play with transcendent value. Fry shifts his focus to the question of authentic action in A Sleep of Prisoners, and uses a series of biblical dreams to stress the need for a conceptualization of eternity in the passing moment in order for one to act authentically within history.
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Date Issued
2004
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/13153
Subject Headings
Fry, Christopher,--1907---Criticism and interpretation, Religious drama--Criticism and interpretation, Time in literature, Theater--Philosophy, Verse drama, English--Criticism and interpretation
Format
Document (PDF)
Strange time
Title
Strange time: block universes and strange loop phenomena in two novels by Kurt Vonnegut.
Creator
Altomare, Francis C., Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of English
Abstract/Description
Einsteinian relativity forever altered our understanding of the metaphysics of time. This study considers how this scientific theory affects the formulation of time in postmodern narratives as a necessary step toward understanding the relationship between empirical science and literary art. Two novels by Kurt Vonnegut, The Sirens of Titan and Slaughterhouse-Five, exemplify this synthesis. Close readings of these texts reveal an underlying temporal scheme deeply informed by relativity....
Show moreEinsteinian relativity forever altered our understanding of the metaphysics of time. This study considers how this scientific theory affects the formulation of time in postmodern narratives as a necessary step toward understanding the relationship between empirical science and literary art. Two novels by Kurt Vonnegut, The Sirens of Titan and Slaughterhouse-Five, exemplify this synthesis. Close readings of these texts reveal an underlying temporal scheme deeply informed by relativity. Furthermore, this study explores how relativity manifests in these texts in light of the block universe concept, Gèodelian universes, and strange loop phenomena. Vonnegut's treatment of free will is also discussed. All of these considerations emphasize Vonnegut's role as a member of the Third Culture, an author who consciously bridges C.P. Snow's two cultures.
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Date Issued
2010
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/FAU/2684306
Subject Headings
Criticism and interpretation, Criticism and interpretation, Postmodernism (Literature), Literature and science, Science and the humanities in literature, Space and time in literature
Format
Document (PDF)