Present tense: a poetics

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 novels shaped by interior monologues and the use of the present tense in the tradition of modernism, the present tense has, over the course of its cen...

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Main Authors: Avanessian, Armen 1973- (Author), Hennig, Anke 1971- (Author)
Other Authors: Schott, Nils F. (Editor), Hendrickson, Daniel 1963- (Translator)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London ; New Delhi ; New York ; Sydney Bloomsbury academic [2015]
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Summary: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 novels shaped by interior monologues and the use of the present tense in the tradition of modernism, the present tense has, over the course of its century-long evolution, changed the conditions of fictional narration, along with our conceptions of time in a philosophical and linguistic framework. Indeed, to understand the work of an increasing number of contemporary writers J.M. Coetzee, Tom McCarthy, Thomas Pynchon, to name only a few it is ne
Physical Description:vi, 291 Seiten
ISBN:9781628927641
9781628927658