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Spatial perception and conceptions in the (re-)presenting and (re-)constructing of Old English texts

Spatial perception and conceptions in the (re-)presenting and (re-)constructing of Old English texts Recent work by Bately1 and Bauschatz2 has brought out how in the Old English period conceptions and representations of that abstract notion w e call 'time' differ from those generally current today. The society and culture of a thousand years ago focussed upon aspects different from the linearity of time which informs our reliance upon the digital watch and calendar, and our stress upon the on-going tripartite progression from past to present to future. They suggest that the encoding of temporal concepts was concerned as m u c h or more with the present's relationship to the past,3 and with the cyclic and durational elements of time and with 'the fact that time is all "present" in eternity'.4 Clemoes too has pointed out h o w the Parker chronicler copied year numbers in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle for which there are no entries as 'a declaration of continuity'.5 A s these studies have shown, time as an abstract concept is conceived within a cultural framework, and diachronic changes in the cultural encoding of perceptions of time suggest important differences between Anglo-Saxon and twentieth-century cultures. Temporality in more general terms and its encoding in written texts has also been a http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Parergon Australian & New Zealand Association of Medieval & Early Modern Studies, Inc. (ANAZAMEMS, Inc.)

Spatial perception and conceptions in the (re-)presenting and (re-)constructing of Old English texts

Waterhouse, Ruth.
Parergon , Volume 9 (1) – Apr 3, 1991
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Recent work by Bately1 and Bauschatz2 has brought out how in the Old English period conceptions and representations of that abstract notion w e call 'time' differ from those generally current today. The society and culture of a thousand years ago focussed upon aspects different from the linearity of time which informs our reliance upon the digital watch and calendar, and our stress upon the on-going tripartite progression from past to present to future. They suggest that the encoding of temporal concepts was concerned as m u c h or more with the present's relationship to the past,3 and with the cyclic and durational elements of time and with 'the fact that time is all "present" in eternity'.4 Clemoes too has pointed out h o w the Parker chronicler copied year numbers in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle for which there are no entries as 'a declaration of continuity'.5 A s these studies have shown, time as an abstract concept is conceived within a cultural framework, and diachronic changes in the cultural encoding of perceptions of time suggest important differences between Anglo-Saxon and twentieth-century cultures. Temporality in more general terms and its encoding in written texts has also been a

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Parergon – Australian & New Zealand Association of Medieval & Early Modern Studies, Inc. (ANAZAMEMS, Inc.)

Published: Apr 3, 1991

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