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Book SynopsisThe tenth volume in a scientific and humanistic inquiry into the nature and experience of time. Divided into six areas, including literature and language, music, psychology, sociology, history, and marking time, the articles are specific in content and broad in implication.
Table of ContentsPerspectives at the Millennium: An Introduction by Marlene P. Soulsby Hamlet's Castle in Cyberspace by J. T. Fraser On Literature and Language The Sadness and Beauty of Aging in Murasaki and Kawabata: A Thousand Year Bridge by Marlene P. Soulsby Ten Soundbytes for the Next Millennium: Mutations in Time, Mind and Narrative by Paul A. Harris Tomorrow Never Dies: Time, Poetry, and Politics in Europe and Latin America during the Twentieth Century by Javier Santiso Imagining the End: Time Construction, Millenarianism and Personal Development in Autobiography and Bildungsroman by Charitini Douvaldzi Time in Language: A Universal Grammar, Education, and Literature? by Rudolf W. Muller On Music and Experience Music, Evanescence and the Question of Time after Structuralism by Christopher F. Hasty Some Temporal Implications of the Patterning of Mozart and Stravinsky in the Light of Recent Neurological Research into Spatial-Temporal Reasoning by Helen Sills The Nows by David Burrows On Behavior The Duration of the Present by REmy Lestienne Psychological Time at the Millennium: Some Past, Present, Future, and Interdisciplinary Issues by Richard A. Block and Dan Zakay On Society From "Storied-Time" to "Clock-Time" in Economic Globalization at the New Millennium by Hoyt Alverson New Times at the Workplace--Opportunity or Angst? The Example of Hospital Work by Karen Davies Sociotemporal Emergence by Thomas Weissert On History and Belief Millennial Movements and Eschatologies in Europe and Asia: A Comparative Approach by Masaki Miyaki A Comparative Study of Selected Physical and Religious Time Concepts by Lawrence W. Fagg On Marking Time Ancient Ideas in a New Setting: Chronos, Kairos, Chora and Topos in a Postindustrialized World by Hans O. Ramo The Development of Ecological Consciousness in 6- to 12-Year-Old Children by Horst Schaub "Lost in Time--Or, On Any Given Sunday" by Alexis Macon McCrossen Quality Time by Donald Miller Appendix: The Study of Time Index
