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- 题名/责任者:
- Making time : world construction in the present-tense novel / Carolin Gebauer
- 出版发行项:
- Berlin ; Boston : Walter de Gruyter GmbH, [2021]
- ISBN:
- 9783110708028
- ISBN:
- 3110708027
- 载体形态项:
- xiii, 378 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- 其他载体形态:
- ebook version : 9783110708196
- 丛编说明:
- Narratologia ; volume 77
- 丛编统一题名:
- Narratologia ; v. 77.
- 个人责任者:
- Gebauer, Carolin, author
- 论题主题:
- English fiction-21st century-History and criticism
- 论题主题:
- Narration (Rhetoric)
- 中图法分类号:
- I561.074
- 书目附注:
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes
- 摘要附注:
- Responding to the current surge in present-tense novels, Making Time is an innovative contribution to narratological research on present-tense usage in narrative fiction. Breaking with the tradition of conceptualizing the present tense purely as a deictic category denoting synchronicity between a narrative event and its presentation, the study redefines present-tense narration as a fully-fledged narrative strategy whose functional potential far exceeds temporal relations between story and discourse. The first part of the volume presents numerous analytical categories that systematically describe the formal, structural, functional, and syntactic dimensions of present-tense usage in narrative fiction. These categories are then deployed to investigate the uses and functions of present-tense narration in selected twenty-first century novels, including Hilary Mantel?s Wolf Hall, Margaret Atwood?s Oryx and Crake, Ian McEwan?s Nutshell, and Irvine Welsh?s Skagboys. The seven case studies serve to illustrate the ubiquity of present-tense narration in contemporary fiction, ranging from the historical novel to the thriller, and to investigate the various ways in which the present tense contributes to narrative worldmaking
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