Time becomes human time to the extent that it is organized after the manner of a narrative; narrative, in turn, is meaningful to the extent that it portrays the features of temporal experience.
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A three-volume treatment of how narrative structures human time itself, connecting Aristotle's Poetics to Augustine's Confessions to the modern novel. Develops Ricoeur's account of narrative identity: we know ourselves only through the stories we tell.