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Present Tense Narration in Contemporary Fiction: A Narratological Overview

Present Tense Narration in Contemporary Fiction: A Narratological Overview

Huber, Irmtraud

Hardcover

Literary Criticism

ISBN10: 1137562129
ISBN13: 9781137562128
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: Oct 12 2016
Pages: 123
Weight: 0.62
Height: 0.53 Width: 6.07 Depth: 8.67
Language: English
In this book, Irmtraud Huber considers a wide range of contemporary novels to explore the variety of possibilities and effects of the use of the present tense, as well as investigating the reasons for its popularity. By illustrating the complexity and sophistication of four different types of contemporary usage, Huber's discussion goes some way towards refuting those critical voices which consider present-tense narration a passing fad and stylistic affectation. As a tense of narration, the present can serve to tell different stories than the past tense, or can tell them differently. By no means a passing fad, it is an important characteristic of contemporary literature.

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