This article tries to analyze the narrative time in The Volcano Lover according to Genette\'s theory of time, aiming to show that through anachronism and achrony, Sontag is aware that history"exists" at present while the present predicts the future, and therefore people are always lost in the past hoping to linger on in it.

Taking narrative time as a cut in point,this paper tries to study the mode and function of narrative time in Chang s writings by way of umcrambling Chang s narrative time mystery.

In Heart of Darkness,the rich thematic meaning not only derives from the author s narration stratification to have a hollow intra-narrative and two narrators with different views,but also derives from the author s original way to deal with narrative time.

In her masterpiece To the Lighthouse,narrative time,focalization as well as interior monologue are not only manifestations of her remarkable narrative technique but also effective ways to render the inner consciousness of her characters in .