EAN: 9783111280240

MAKING TIME - CAROLIN GEBAUER KARTONIERT (TB)

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 on present-tense usage in narrative fiction. Breaking with the
tradition of conceptualizing the present tense purely as a deictic category denoting
synchronicity between a narrative event and its presentation  the study redefines present-tense
narration as a fully-fledged narrative strategy whose functional potential far exceeds temporal
relations between story and discourse. The first part of the volume presents numerous
analytical categories that systematically describe the formal  structural  functional  and
syntactic dimensions of present-tense usage in narrative fiction. These categories are then
deployed to investigate the uses and functions of present-tense narration in selected
twenty-first century novels  including Hilary Mantel's Wolf Hall  Margaret Atwood's Oryx and
Crake  Ian McEwan's Nutshell  and Irvine Welsh's Skagboys. The seven case studies serve to
illustrate the ubiquity of present-tense narration in contemporary fiction  ranging from the
historical novel to the thriller  and to investigate the various ways in which the present
tense contributes to narrative worldmaking.

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