J. T. Fraser and the Temporal Texture of Narrative, an Intersection of Disciplines

What is it about?

To make sense of time, we humans tell stories. But though the word time is singular, there are different types of temporal meaning and we can understand time differently as our society changes. Fifteen hundred years ago early English speakers told stories that helped them understand their time as a group of people. Fast forward to the 1700s and the first English novels tell stories of individuals, progressing up or down in society; on to the 1800s and stories give the most detailed accounts of individual, social and material life. But from the last century on, through science and technology, we've learnt there's much more to know - and stories (of modernism, postmodernism) tried to tell us the new meanings of time. Now, what will the stories of the digital age (the shared fragments of social media, the narratives of gaming) help us to understand about our temporal experience?

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