The lists of books and works mentioned below are necessarily circumscribed and incomplete, and the examples used necessarily a limited and subjective choice. However, at least a few aspects of it may be outlined here. Time as a theme in literature, though, is a potentially immense subject, and well beyond the scope of this website sub-section. But what we are talking about here is literature where time, and the passage of time, is a major theme, and sometimes almost a character in its own right. chronological development, real-time narration, flashbacks, flashforwards, random temporal progressions, etc), it is still the passage of time that allows plots to unfold, characters to be drawn, etc. Regardless of the way a story may deal with time (e.g. Just as time is a fundamental element of our existence, it has also been a fundamental element in literature for almost as long as literature has existed.Ĭlearly, all stories take place in time to some extent. Time has been a popular theme in literature for almost as long as literature has existed
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