The Instantaneous Light-Exploration To Multi-dimensional Narrative Time

Time is a metaphysical question in nature.Similarly,in terms of literature,narrative time is also a key factor for the writer to construct a novel.Along with the evolution of human-beings,the concept of time have kept changing constantly.Narrative time which consists of linear time and multi-dimensional narrative time is a kind of writing method.Before the rose of modernism,the concept of the time in the literature was linear time or namely neutral time.The linear time emblems a type of method of thinking which is based on Christian authority,order,and monism.After modernism arose,the concept of time has been changed towards a framework of multi-dimensional space-time,and its development is based on the great scientific progresses such as Einstein's theory of relativity,quantum physics,parallel universe and so on.Moreover,the multi-dimensional narrative time reflects the characteristics of modern and postmodern for the reason that our human society is in the period of modern and postmodern.Humanity still lives and grows in series conflicts,such as the conflict between the authority and the deconstruction of authority,the order and the disorder,the certainty and uncertainty,and the monism and pluralism.Therefore,how to establish the “language”,Wittgenstein's “silent” and how to establish boundaries in a secular and pluralistic society are also the topic which I intend to explore in this article.This paper consists of six chapters parts.Firstly,the first part is preface which consists of two sections.The first one mainly introduces why I choose this topic,namely the metaphysical significance of time.And the second sections describes the research status of “narrative time”.Secondly,the first chapter is the analysis of the origin and evolution of linear time,or the history of linear time.Thirdly,the second chapter focuses on analysis of the origin and the evolution of the conceptualization of three-dimensional space-time from the three aspects are physics,Prigogine's “new reason” and paintings,and then interpret the definition of multi-dimensional space-time narrative time.Fourthly,the third chapter mainly discusses the three types of multi-dimensional narrative time,namely infinite dimensional narrative time,juxtaposition of multi-dimensional narrative time and chaotic multi-dimensional narrative time.Firstly,I use Joy's Finnegans Wake and Jorge Luis Borges' The Garden of Forking Paths as examples to illustrate the infinite dimensional narrative time.Secondly,I employ Italo Calvino's If on a Winter's Night a Traveller as an example to analyze the juxtaposition and the narrative time.Thirdly,I use Alain Robbe-Griller's Jealous as an example to analyze the chaotic multi-dimensional narrative time.The fourth section mainly discuss the techniques the narrative time.The fifth section analyzes the most valuable artistic effects of narrative time..Fifth,the fourth chapter focuses on the relationship between multi-dimensional narrative time and post modernity.There are two terms in the book named Language and Silence by Steiner George which are “language” and “silent”.These two terms correspond to the infinite multi-dimensional narrative time and chaotic multi-dimensional narrative time respectively.In this article,I take Beckett's Waiting for Godot as an instance to explain the concept of the chaotic multi-dimensional narrative time and Wittgenstein's “silence” and “truth”.I also take the Baron in the Tree as an example to analyze the contradictory tension among the pre-modernity,modernity and post-modernity.Lastly,I take the film named Landscape in the Mist by Theo Angelopoulos as an illustration to reveal the outlet of humans in such a state of survival.Sixth,epilogue analyze the significance of the topic.