Time: Perspectives at the Millennium (The Study of Time X)

The articles here are not only about time, they are investigations from a specific temporal perspective: the calendrical event of the millennium. This arbitrary marker has provided a challenge and focus to the International Society for the Study of Time and to thinkers in all disciplines to take stock of what has gone before and what lies ahead, approaching the event of the millennium from the standpoint of time itself, and asking critical questions about the nature and experience of time. Divided into six areas, including literature and language, music, psychology, sociology, history, and marking time, the collection is specific in content and broad in implication. Each article makes a contribution to scholarship within an individual discipline, and yet each transcends the bounds of discipline in its approach to broader issues involving the study of time. There is no other source like The Study of Time series that focuses so intensely on the nature and experience of time from diverse perspectives in all academic disciplines. This volume reveals the range and magnitude of intellectual endeavor in interdisciplinary research inspired by the enduring human fascination with time.

Table of Contents:
Perspectives 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. Müller 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 Rémy 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. Rämö 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

About the Author :
MARLENE P. SOULSBY is Associate Professor of German and Comparative Literature, Penn State University, Worthington Scranton./e J. T. FRASER is Founder of the International Society for the Study of Time.