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Serial texts must repeat, so that they can be recognized, but they must also change, so that they can remain interesting. Unusual temporal manipulations can emerge in such texts in order to balance these contradictory demands. This essay studies two serial texts whose need for self-extension produces a suspension of historical time: the contemporary animated sitcom The Simpsons, and medieval romance as theorized by the twelfth-century poet Wace. I suggest that we might name this temporal constraint fiction.
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Repetition
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Daniel Reeve
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Serial texts must repeat, so that they can be recognized, but they must also change, so that they can remain interesting. Unusual temporal manipulations can emerge in such texts in order to balance these contradictory demands. This essay studies two serial texts whose need for self-extension produces a suspension of historical time: the contemporary animated sitcom The Simpsons, and medieval romance as theorized by the twelfth-century poet Wace. I suggest that we might name this temporal constraint fiction.
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Berlin
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ICI Berlin Press
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2019
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| Subject |
time
fiction
form
structure
serial
continuation
reproduction
iteration
narrative
television
medieval
The Simpsons
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© by the author(s)
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
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yes
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en-GB
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Repetition
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91
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97
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| Source |
Re-: An Errant Glossary, ed. by Christoph F. E. Holzhey and Arnd Wedemeyer, Cultural Inquiry, 15 (Berlin: ICI Berlin Press, 2019), pp. 91–97
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