Present Tense: A Poetics - Couverture rigide

Avanessian, Armen; Hennig, Dr. Anke

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1628927658 ISBN 13 : 9781628927658

Editeur : Bloomsbury Academic USA, 2015

A propos du livre

Revue de presse :

This book renews attention to poetics as a worthy field of literary studies by offering a thorough and systematic examination of the narrative and philosophical significance of tense. The manner of delivery is engaging even as it remains scholarly. Fresh, at times daring, in its propositions, this work will no doubt provoke interest and generate discussion. --Galin Tihanov, George Steiner Professor of Comparative Literature, Queen Mary, University of London, UK

How do we account for the widespread use of the present tense in contemporary narratives? What has happened to our understanding of time if a fundamental tenet of fictionalitythe idea that narratives make present something that happened in the (real or imagined) pastseems no longer operative? Drawing on narratology, cognitive science, deconstruction and philosophy of language, Avanessian and Hennig reconceptualize the relation between time and narrative; what is more, they rethink poetics as an expanded cultural theory concerned with human world-making. An impressive tour de force. --Andreas Gailus, Associate Professor of German, University of Michigan, USA

Présentation de l'éditeur :

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.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Bloomsbury Academic USA
• Date d'édition: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1628927658
• ISBN 13: 9781628927658
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 304