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Author:   J. T. Fraser ,  N. Lawrence ,  D. Park ,  Director J T Fraser (International Society for the Study of Time)
Publisher:   Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
Imprint:   Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
Edition:   Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1981
Dimensions:   Width: 17.00cm , Height: 1.70cm , Length: 24.40cm
Weight:   0.555kg
ISBN:  

9781461259497

ISBN 10:   1461259495
Pages:   286
Publication Date:   14 October 2011
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

My Time Is Your Time.- Issues of Beginnings and Endings.- Beginnings of Organic Evolution.- The Beginning of the Beginning in Western Thought.- Death, Literature, and Its Consolations.- On the Beginnings and Endings of Time in Medieval Judaism and Islam.- A Structuralist View of Biological Origins.- The Origins of Time.- The Relationship Between Our New Sense of Time and Our Sense of An Ending in Tragedy.- The Beginning and End of Time in Physical Cosmology.- Beginnings and Endings: Hesse and Kawabata.- Perspectivity and the Principle of Continuity.- Closure and the Shape of Fictions: The Example of “Women in Love”.- Issues of Music and Time.- Hindu-Buddhist Time in Javanese Gamelan Music.- The Zones of Time in Music and Human Activity.- On Musical Continuity.- The Creation of Audible Time.- Miscellaneous Contributions.- The Branch System Hypothesis: A Critique.- Time Proverbs and Social Change in Belgrade, Yugoslavia.- A Report on the Literature of Time 1900-1980.- 1. A Selected Bibliography of Books.- 2. Periodical Literature—a Statistical Survey.- 3. A Guide to the Time-related Subject Headings of the Library of Congress.- Membership List.

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