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Present tense :

(Number (ISBN

162892764X

(Number (ISBN

1628927658

(Number (ISBN

9781628927641

(Number (ISBN

9781628927658

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b421488

Title Proper

Present tense :

General Material Designation

[Book]

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a poetics /

First Statement of Responsibility

Armen Avanessian and Anke Hennig ; Translated by Nils F. Schott with Daniel Hendrickson

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

vi, 291 pages ;

Dimensions

23 cm

Text of Note

"Originally published as Präsens : Poetik eines Tempus, 2012 Diaphanes, Zurich"--Title page verso

Text of Note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-280) and index

Text of Note

Introduction -- 1. The present-tense novel -- 2. Readings in methodology -- 3. The imaginary present tense -- 4. Tense philosophy -- Conclusion

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Text of Note

"Describes how the present tense was invented and why the poetics of the present tense novel is essential for an understanding of contemporary literature and the evolution of the novel since modernism"--

Text of Note

"The invention of the present-tense novel is a literary event whose importance is on par with the discovery of perspective in painting. From the first present-tense novels shaped by interior monologues and avant-garde factography (e.g. in Arthur Schnitzler or James Joyce) and the use of the present-tense in the tradition of modernism, the history of present-tense narration has changed the conditions of fictional narration over the course of its century-long development, along with our conceptions of time in a philosophical and linguistic framework. Indeed, for an understanding of the work of an increasing number of contemporary writers (J.M. Coetzee, Tom McCarthy, Thomas Pynchon to name only a few) it is both necessary to understand the distinct linguistic and literary qualities of the present tense as well as its (historical) transformation to a genuine tense of contemporary storytelling. For the first time in literary scholarship, Present Tense: A Poetics offers an account of an epochal evolution in 20th- and 21st-century fiction"--

Fiction-- Technique

Narration (Rhetoric)

Time in literature

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Edition

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Book number

Avanessian, Armen

Hendrickson, Daniel,1963-

Henning, Anke

Schott, Nils F.

Date of Transaction

20180301054512.2

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[Book]

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