UID:
almafu_9961764895202883
Umfang:
1 online resource (281 pages)
Ausgabe:
First edition.
ISBN:
83-233-7476-7
Serie:
Topographies of (Post)Modernity
Inhalt:
This book is a pioneering study of contemporary historical novels in which events and the narration of them appear contemporaneous.
Anmerkung:
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Part One: Time, (Present) Tense, and Narrative -- Temporality in Narrative: Mimetic and Anti-Mimetic Approaches -- The Distinction of the Present Tense in Narrative -- Present-tense narration: a challenge in narrative theory and narrative practice -- Present-tense narrative: typologies -- Part Two: Present-Tense Narration in Contemporary Historical Fiction -- Of What Is Passing: Present-Tense Narration -- Simultaneous Narration -- Hilary Mantel, Wolf Hall, Bring Up the Bodies, The Mirror and the Light -- Simultaneity of experience and narration -- Simultaneity framed by retrospection -- Curiosity, surprise and suspense -- Unmarked clues -- Contingency and control -- The structure -- David Mitchell, The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet -- Simultaneity of experience and narration -- The structure -- Simultaneous actions -- Contingency -- Living in the present, looking forward and back -- Quasi-Simultaneous Narration -- Robert Harris, An Officer and a Spy -- Between simultaneity and retrospection -- The structure - "dates are always significant" -- Chronology and the "master strategies" -- Drama and Simultaneous Narration -- George Garrett, Entered from the Sun: The Murder of Marlowe -- History as an open-ended inquiry -- Simultaneity of action and representation: between narrative and drama -- Between simultaneity, retrospectivity and timelessness: the status of the narrator -- Of What Is Past, or Passing: Past- and Present-Tense Narration -- Simultaneous Present-Tense Narration and Vertical Past-Tense Embedding -- Margaret Atwood, Alias Grace -- Simultaneous narration and alternating perspectives -- Simultaneity versus retrospection: shaping the past in the present -- Simultaneous Present-Tense Narration and Horizontal Past-Tense Embedding.
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Elizabeth Fremantle, Queen's Gambit, Sisters of Treason, Watch the Lady -- Expressing simultaneity and other functions of the present tense -- The use of the past tense: its functions and structural role -- Some problems and pitfalls of present-tense narration -- (Con)fusion of Times and Tenses -- André Brink, Philida -- Commingling of voices and tenses -- History as the past and/or the present -- Of What Is Past, or Passing, or to Come: Past-, Present- and Future-Tense Narration -- Punctual Narration - The Present as "the sum of all" -- George Garrett, Death of the Fox -- What is passing: the present moment, the present tense -- Simultaneity of the narrated: parallel minds, parallel experiences -- Between life and death: vestigial suspense -- What is past: retrospection in the past tense -- What is to come: prospection in the future tense -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index.
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 83-233-5271-2
Sprache:
Englisch
