{"product_id":"narrative-and-freedom-the-shadows-of-time-9780300058826","title":"Narrative and Freedom: The Shadows of Time","description":"\u003cp\u003eDrawing on works by the Russian writers Dostoevsky  Tolstoy  and Chekhov  by other writers as diverse as Sophocles  Cervantes  and George Eliot  by thinkers as varied as William James  Mikhail Bakhtin  and Stephen Jay Gould  and from philosophy  the Bible  television  and much more  Gary Saul Morson examines the relation of time to narrative form and to an ethical dimension of the literary experience. Morson asserts that the way we think about the world and narrate events is often in contradiction to the truly eventful and open nature of daily life. Literature  history  and the sciences frequently present experience as if contingency  chance  and the possibility of diverse futures were all illusory. As a result  people draw conclusions or accept ideologies without sufficiently examining their consequences or alternatives. However  says Morson  there is another way to read and construct texts. He explains that most narratives are developed through foreshadowing and \"backshadowing\" (foreshadowing ascribed after the fact)  which tend to reduce the multiplicity of possibilities in each moment. But other literary works try to convey temporal openness through a device he calls \"sideshadowing.\" Sideshadowing suggests that to understand an event is to grasp what else might have happened.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45651749208117,"sku":"ByrdShop_0300058829","price":408.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780300058826.jpg?v=1781839280","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/narrative-and-freedom-the-shadows-of-time-9780300058826","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}