That most imaginative writers since Homer have shown interest in time is not a recent idea. It is no exaggeration to say that since man first began writing his thoughts down, he has been persistently concerned about his own place in history. As Willia...
That most imaginative writers since Homer have shown interest in time is not a recent idea. It is no exaggeration to say that since man first began writing his thoughts down, he has been persistently concerned about his own place in history. As William T. Noon argues, "the lament of mutability," has been a major one [theme] in every literature since, indeed, literature began. For literature deals with human experience, and as Thomas Carlyle's Teufelsdrockh observes, "our whole terristrial being is based on Time and built of Time."