Narrative time and holographic identity formation
Periods in the life of an author, narrator, or character are often reified as a discrete developmental stage: childhood is a frequent example (e.g. throughout Proust or Joyce), and before/after traumatic events (e.g. Wuthering Heights, Ethan Frome). Can we correlate this with the dilation of narrative time with respect to the text? If so, can it shed light on authorial practices of character formation that lie outside the typical wavelengths of human reading?