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Novel (2022) 55 (3): 463–479.
Published: 01 November 2022
...Phillip Brian Harper Abstract Observing that Ishmael Reed's 1972 novel Mumbo Jumbo both oscillates between present‐ and past‐tense narration and traffics in historical anachronism, this article argues that these dual modes of temporal disjunction establish the novel as a work of historical allegory...
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Novel (2012) 45 (1): 56–70.
Published: 01 May 2012
... in. Phelps's text vacillates between tenses, seeking to make all people inhabit the present; however, narration depends on keeping these time frames discrete, and as the religious goal of the novel is achieved, its narrative cohesion is undermined. © 2012 by Novel, Inc. 2012 Duke University Press...
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Novel (2009) 42 (2): 318–325.
Published: 01 August 2009
... somebody else’s present, and it is usually past. The
novel’s now is conventionally tensed as the past but decoded by the reader as a
kind of present, encoding in tense a relationship between a present moment and
some future moment from which it will be narrated.
In the middle section of this essay...
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Novel (2017) 50 (1): 146–149.
Published: 01 May 2017
... what she nicely calls “present tenseness” (85). Dreiser's odd technique of eliminating verbs whenever possible is a strategy to avoid placing action in the past, as if the events described were happening “now.” What Dreiser wants, Weinstein contends, is for writing to function like photography...
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Novel (2010) 43 (3): 424–442.
Published: 01 November 2010
... form. Part 4 of Voyage is short (only about five pages in length)
compared with the preceding three and consists of a present-tense narration of
Anna’s delirium after the abortion that is interspersed with long italicized passages
describing a Caribbean carnival and other, shorter reminiscences...
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Novel (2020) 53 (3): 419–435.
Published: 01 November 2020
... takes full advantage of: tense. Why does Coetzee always write in the present tense? Roland Barthes has relevant ideas. Barthes's thoughts about the passé simple —a French past tense used exclusively in literary writing—are somewhat inaccurately translated in the English edition using the word...
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Novel (2020) 53 (3): 481–484.
Published: 01 November 2020
... to “identify our experiences with present-tense judgments about them.” 1 Tenselessness, on the other hand, imagines the existence of “different cultural moments simultaneously,” allowing Forster to “detach judgment from the tyrannically moving present” (120). Arguing that all elements of time are “equally...
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Novel (2021) 54 (3): 444–460.
Published: 01 November 2021
... this paradox. The novel is written in the past tense—seemingly an odd decision if the intent is to lend immediacy to writing. The present tense, which produces the effect of being present with or in the moment described, would be the more obvious choice. Similarly, given Laing's stated aim to render...
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Novel (2017) 50 (1): 77–96.
Published: 01 May 2017
... ). Stein's here and near , which could refer to time as well as space, suggest that war is never fully present in the present tense but always looming in the offing. Its time belongs to the “tense future,” to borrow from the title of Paul K. Saint-Amour's book on the “interwar” period: a period, he argues...
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Novel (2016) 49 (3): 467–485.
Published: 01 November 2016
...; the surface of the text—its style—seems especially salient and the content it conveys oddly distant. Indeed, much of James's writing lends itself to metaphors of surface and depth for this reason. This in turn presents a challenge to interpretation. Perhaps as a result, two major strands of recent James...
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Novel (2009) 42 (3): 373–379.
Published: 01 November 2009
...
at one period of our lives,” he acknowledges, and his universalizing statement
employs the present tense only to divide it into his past and her future. “When you
have lived to my age, you will begin to think that letters are never worth going
through the rain for” (Oxford Illustrated 4 [Emma]: 293...
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Novel (2020) 53 (2): 165–192.
Published: 01 August 2020
... be observed by a living character. Its special status comes from the fact that no-body/character is present to perceive it; necessarily, Esther cannot narrate this space in the present tense of the omniscient narrator since she is both a character and narrator. As we have seen, the ongoing, objective...
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Novel (2007) 41 (1): 99–120.
Published: 01 May 2007
.... A particularly resonant group centers on the verb
"to lie," immediately brought into relief by the conspicuous ambiguity of its us-
age in the title: potentially either grammatically correct past tense or colloquial
present. The irresolvable tension between present and past tense not only ges-
tures...
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Novel (2015) 48 (1): 126–130.
Published: 01 May 2015
..., and description in general belong to the pole of presentness. Even at this early stage in the book, it is clear that Jameson's interest is in the dialectical interplay of these impulses, which have so often been juxtaposed qualitatively. James favored showing over telling, Lukács preferred narrating to describing...
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Novel (2010) 43 (1): 78–82.
Published: 01 May 2010
... it to the consciousness of a survivor and witness (34). The machine
gunning at Amritsar is narrated in the present, with victims falling around and
on top of the doctor-grandfather, when suddenly this present is interrupted by
another leap into the future: “The clasp of his bag is digging into his chest, inflict...
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Novel (2013) 46 (1): 153–157.
Published: 01 May 2013
... advanced fromOliver Twist
through Bleak House to Great Expectations, he rendered genealogical claims on individual
destiny less and less sure. The germ of this loosening is already present in the sexually
ambiguous Fagin’s criminal gang, which possesses a liveliness notably absent from the
world...
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Novel (2023) 56 (1): 85–104.
Published: 01 May 2023
... the fact that The Other House appears to exist in the wrong form. . . . [T]he passage—and the novel as a whole—reads as if it should be staged” (117–18). 21 This distinction is ambiguous because, for the reader mistaking these lines as occurring in the novel's present, “last spring” need...
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Novel (2015) 48 (1): 18–44.
Published: 01 May 2015
...-relations psychoanalysis and its present-day inheritors helps to uncover the invention of modern solitude: a paradoxical state in which we are never truly alone because we have internalized the presence of others, whether they are persons or, this essay argues, literary characters. We, like Tess, imagine...
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Novel (2020) 53 (1): 16–36.
Published: 01 May 2020
... a contemporaneity that cannot be equated with either the assertion or the disavowal of contemporaneousness. At the heart of my account stands the relation between the concept-metaphor of invisibility and the idea that the present must always exceed the limits of historical form. The narrator does not, after all...
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Novel (2020) 53 (3): 360–382.
Published: 01 November 2020
... The Unconsoled confronts us with a situation in which the narrator's past becomes merged, in strikingly literal ways, with the present of the story he relates—a present that is further complicated by the fact that the story is told in the past tense, the story's present thus also featuring as part of the past...
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