The functional forms of Time in Classic English Narrative: Robinson Crusoe as a Model

Abstract

These forms are examined in this article in their different assimilations in the narrative structure of Robinson Crusoe as a selected classical model of conventional narrative conceptualization of time in the narrative. Diagrams and illustrations will be utilized to portray these distinct functional forms as at work in the narrative performance. This will help answer the main question posed by this article about the means with which classical narratives configure and practice time architecture as the backbone of their structural sequencing.