{"product_id":"the-imagined-moment-time-narrative-and-computation-9780803229778","title":"The Imagined Moment: Time, Narrative, and Computation","description":"Time is a key aspect of narrative. It can advance a story, illuminate its role in our daily lives, and help us understand how events unfold. In this groundbreaking interdisciplinary work, Inderjeet Mani uses recent developments in linguistics and computer science to analyze the use of time in narrative form. \u003ci\u003eThe Imagined Moment\u003c\/i\u003e outlines directions for an emerging discipline of \"corpus narratology,\" an approach involving the computer analysis and interpretation of multimillion-word collections of narrative text. This approach, Mani explains, could alter the very foundations of narrative theory. Accordingly, he develops a computer representation for timelines and applies it to a variety of literary works. Among these are such classics as \u003ci\u003eOne Hundred Years of Solitude\u003c\/i\u003e, \"A Hunger Artist,\" \u003ci\u003eSwann's Way\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eJealousy\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eCandide\u003c\/i\u003e, and \"The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber.\" Along the way, Mani considers stories embedded in temporal cycles; the cognitive processes involved in the construal of events in time; the modeling of narrative progression in terms of changes in readers' evaluation of characters; the study of variations of tempo in fiction; and time in computer-mediated forms of storytelling.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Inderjeet Mani\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Nebraska Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/01\/2010\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 264\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.05lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.60h x 5.70w x 1.00d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780803229778\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eInderjeet Mani is a visiting scholar in the Department of Computer Science at Brandeis University, and senior principal scientist at the MITRE Corporation in Bedford, Massachusetts. He has also been a visiting fellow of the Computer Laboratory at the University of Cambridge, and an associate professor of linguistics at Georgetown University. He is the author or coeditor of several books, including \u003ci\u003eThe Language of Time\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eAutomatic Summarization\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Nebraska Press","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":40847906472051,"sku":"9.78E+12","price":84.91,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_a8389fe9-9a4e-40d7-8db1-cfa99f274c38.jpg?v=1686238764","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/the-imagined-moment-time-narrative-and-computation-9780803229778","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}