Filmmakers, composers, and playwrights carefully author the time dimension of their work. The feeling of a pregnant pause and an accelerando comes from viewers' experience of passing time. Those mediums express a few hours’ evolving experience—what about days, months, years? 
I think the Odyssey is a great example, but its interesting properties arise because it wasn't authored as a book! In general, book plots do manipulate the reader along time dimensions, but I think few intentionally design multi-month time scales as e.g. social institutions do.
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I see your point about multi month timelines. What about religious books?
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My rough sense here is that the books themselves don't really encode a lengthy authored time dimension, but the social institutions around them absolutely do.
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Also curious to understand how playwrights accomplish what you mean
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I don't think playwrights generally do. Hard to think of a good example.
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The about the Decameron or the Canterbury tales? Both authored as books, similar properties as the Odyssey.
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The Decameron seems like a particularly great example!
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Ugh. Not “the about.” What about?
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