Making Time : : World Construction in the Present-Tense Novel / / Carolin Gebauer.
2023 Perkins Prize of the International Society for the Study of Narrative ESSE Book Award for Junior Scholars for a book in the field of Literatures in the English LanguageResponding to the current surge in present-tense novels, Making Time is an innovative contribution to narratological research o...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2021] ©2021 |
| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Narratologia : Contributions to Narrative Theory ,
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (XVII, 378 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Acknowledgments
- Contents
- List of Figures and Tables
- Abbreviations of Titles
- 1 Introduction
- Part I: Mapping the Research Field on Present-Tense Narration
- 2 Linguistic, Narratological, and Philosophical Considerations on Tense Usage in Narrative Fiction
- Part II: A Narratological Model of Present-Tense Usage in Narrative Fiction
- 3 The ‘Grammatical’ Fallacy, or: Why We Need a Descriptive and Analytical Model of Present- Tense Narration
- 4 The Formal-Structural Dimension of Fictional (Present-)Tense Usage: Textual Distribution and Narrative Orchestration
- 5 The Functional Dimension of Fictional Present-Tense Usage: Uses and Functions of Present-Tense Narration
- 6 The Syntactic Dimension of Fictional Present-Tense Usage: Correlations between (Different Kinds of) Present-Tense Narration and Other Narrative Strategies and/or Phenomena
- Part III: Uses and Functions of Present-Tense Narration in Contemporary Narrative Fiction
- 7 Narrative of Reformation: The Revision of History and Narrative Form in Hilary Mantel’s Wolf Hall (2003) and Bring Up the Bodies (2012)
- 8 Narrative of Punishment: Experientiality, Immersion, and the Representation of Narrative Space in Margaret Atwood’s Oryx and Crake (2003)
- 9 Narrative of Reminiscence: Intercultural Understanding and Narrative Empathy in Nadeem Aslam’s Maps for Lost Lovers (2004)
- 10 Narrative of Deception: Narrative Progression, Suspense, and Surprise in Don Winslow’s The Power of the Dog (2005)
- 11 Narrative of Emergence: Metanarration, Intertextuality, and the Disclosure of Worldmaking in Ian McEwan’s Nutshell (2016)
- 12 Narrative of Emancipation: Character-Centered Illusion, Cognitive Dissonance, and Narrative Unreliability in Emma Donoghue’s Room (2010)
- 13 Narrative of Life: Orality, Narrative Authority, and the (Broken) Illusion of Immediacy in Irvine Welsh’s Skagboys (2012) and Dead Men’s Trousers (2018)
- 14 Concluding Remarks, or: The Future of Research on Present-Tense Narration
- Works Cited
- Author Index
- Subject Index