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elsr-16146	Wang, Ling	Devouring Time: A Study of the Narrative Time in Jennifer Egan’s A Visit from the Goon Squad	2023	10	.pdf	application/pdf	5381	290	67	The French philosopher Levinas believes that “Time is not a succession of instants filing by before an I, but the response to the hope for the present, which in the present is the very expression of the ‘I,’ and is itself equivalent to the present […] To understand the mystery of the work of time, we should start with the hope for the present, taken as a primary fact. The temporal duality is emphasized, which are the opposition between the story time and narrative time.	cache/elsr-16146.pdf	txt/elsr-16146.txt