From: "Mirza Athar Baig" <sisyphus-AT-nexlinx.net.pk>
Subject: PLC: RE.David and Reg:space and time in fiction.
Date: Sat, 4 Aug 2001 21:23:36 +0500
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Dear David,
Thanks for your valuable suggestions about readings on the 'spatiality' and 'temporality'=09
of literature. I absolutely agree with you that the topic is multi-dimensional and is open
to many interpretations. My present concern however is limited to the problem of the
epistemological role and the ontological status of the narrative voice in
generating /determining the spatio-temporal language structures employed to
create fictional worlds. Obviously the choice of the storyteller to assume a third person posture
of God like omnipotence and omniscience, or the first person placement of the voice in
some unique subjectivity are significant decisions, which not only fulfill the specific
requirements of a particular work of fiction but also set the stage for the interaction
of language with our experience of space and time at the physical /objective and
mental/subjective level. Do you think that Derrida's concept of differance as endless
defference of meaning can be appropriated in some sense to explicate the phenomenology
of event in fiction.
Reg's remarks are very suggestive, but it is not clear how our physical understanding
of space and time, based as it is on evolving mathematical models, whether Newtonian
Absolute space and time or the Einsteinian relative space-time can affect the phenomenological
given- ness of space and time in the lived experience of the writer and the reader. Also I would
request that I may kindly be enlightened as to how, Barthes'notion of' the 'death of the author'
can gel with this issue. Thanks.
Best regards,
M irza Athar Baig
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defference of meaning can be
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of event in fiction.
Reg=92s remarks are very suggestive,
but it is not clear how our physical understanding
of space and time, based as it is on
evolving mathematical models, whether Newtonian
Absolute space and time or the Einsteinian
relative space-time can affect the phenomenological
given- ness of space and time in the
lived experience of the writer and the reader. Also I would
request that I may kindly be
enlightened as to how, Barthes=92notion of=92 the =91death of the author=92
can gel with this issue. Thanks.
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