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Present Tense - A Poetics (Hardcover)
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Present Tense - A Poetics (Hardcover)
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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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