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Synopsis
The tenth volume in a continuing scientific and humanistic inquiry into the nature and experience of time.
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Presents 20 time-related essays arranged in six categories: literature and language, music and experience, behavior, society, history and belief, and the concept of marking time. Topics include: the sadness and beauty of aging in Murasaki and Kawabata; Hamlet's castle in cyberspace; time, poetry, and politics in Europe and Latin America during the 20th century; music's evanescence and the question of time after structuralism; millennial movements and eschatologies in Europe and Asia; and the development of ecological consciousness of time in 6- to 12-year-old children. Many of these essays emerged in the tenth conference of the International Society for the Study of Time (July 1998). Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)