Time ― Perspectives at the Millennium (The Study of Time X)

Presents 20 time-related essays arranged in six categories: literature and language, music and experience, behavior, society, history and belief, and the concept of marking time. Topics include: the sadness and beauty of aging in Murasaki and Kawabata; Hamlet's castle in cyberspace; time, poetry, and politics in Europe and Latin America during the 20th century; music's evanescence and the question of time after structuralism; millennial movements and eschatologies in Europe and Asia; and the development of ecological consciousness of time in 6- to 12-year-old children. Many of these essays emerged in the tenth conference of the International Society for the Study of Time (July 1998). Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

MARLENE P. SOULSBY is Associate Professor of German and Comparative Literature, Penn State University, Worthington Scranton./e

J. T. FRASER is Founder of the International Society for the Study of Time.