Present tense

Present tense: a poetics

by Avanessian, Armen

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"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 conceptio…

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Title Statements

  • Full title :Present tense : a poetics / Armen Avanessian and Anke Hennig ; Translated by Nils F. Schott with Daniel Hendrickson.

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 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"--

"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"--

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Edition Statements

  • Publication Date:2015.

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Notes

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

The Physical Object

  • Description:vi, 291 pages ; : 23 cm

Edition Identifiers

  • ISBN:9781628927658, 1628927658, 9781628927641, 162892764X
  • oclc:ocn891610393
  • LC Classification:PN56.T5
  • Dewey Decimal:809/.93384

Table of Contents

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

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Subjects

Berättarteknik Fiction -- Technique LITERARY CRITICISM -- Semiotics & Theory Narration Narration (Rhetoric) Present-tense novels Temps dans la littérature Tid i litteraturen Time in literature

Writers

Avanessian, Armen Hendrickson, Daniel Henning, Anke Schott, Nils F.

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