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Present Tense - A Poetics (Hardcover) Loot Price: R5,019
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Present Tense - A Poetics (Hardcover): Armen Avanessian, Anke Hennig

Present Tense - A Poetics (Hardcover)

Armen Avanessian, Anke Hennig

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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 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 necessary to both understand the distinct linguistic and literary qualities of the present tense as well as its historical transformation into a genuine tense of contemporary storytelling. For the first time in literary scholarship, Present Tense: A Poetics offers an account of a profound development in 20th- and 21st-century fiction.

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Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic USA
Country of origin: United States
Release date: November 2015
Authors: Armen Avanessian • Anke Hennig
Dimensions: 216 x 140 x 18mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover - Cloth over boards / With dust jacket
Pages: 304
ISBN-13: 978-1-62892-765-8
Categories: Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary theory
Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > From 1900
Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Novels, other prose & writers > General
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LSN: 1-62892-765-8
Barcode: 9781628927658

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