...Theo Damsteegt It is argued that in internal focalization (e.g., interior monologue or internal sensory perception), the present tense serves to establish a seemingly direct, unmediated link with a character's mind. In reports of actions, too, the present tense may have this effect of providing...

... “Newspaper,” Joy Harjo’s “When the World as We Knew It Ended—,” and Reginald Shepherd’s “Objects in Mirror Are Closer than They Appear” illustrate how some poets after 9/11 envisioned community as tense, contradictory, and fragmented. The article discusses those three poems and their relationship...

... phenomena from grammatical tense and mood to sound symbolism, ultimately demonstrating the resonances between the thematic trajectory of the novel and the neurophysiological mechanism of temporal synchronization: the unconscious capacity to “catch” the subjective experience of time from other people...

... or believing: dire, annoncer, penser, croire, etc by a number of grammatical words (que, si, ce qui, ce que [for qu’est-ce qui, qu’est-ce que], cf.: Qu’est-ce qui empêche Paul de venir?andPierre demande ce qui empêche Paul, etc finally, by the transformations that affect the tenses, the modes...

..., this work has become one of the fetish objects of French stylistics, which is fascinated by the use made of the perfect as the basic narrative tense. By appeal to La mort heureuse, the first version of L’étranger, Adam initiates us...

... is written in the present tense, exemplified by J. M. Coetzee’s Wait- ing for the Barbarians. Such texts manifest their fictional status not only by means of their narrator’s ontological status, but also by their form, which no longer constitutes a formal imitation of historical autobiography. This chapter...

... “ Kafka’s Eternal Present: Narrative Tense in ‘Ein Landarzt’ and Other First-Person Stories ,” PMLA 83 ( 1 ): 144 – 50 . 1978 Transparent Minds: Narrative Modes for Presenting Consciousness in Fiction ( Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press ). Cohn Ruby 1973 Back to Beckett...

... the tenses are error — let me explain.” In a sense, all the rest of the narrative is indeed an explanation of this first sentence, commu- nicating the events that make it true or possible. Bring the Jubilee is a novel of alternate history, in which the point of divergence from our own history...

..., Ingeborg Hoesterey, and Maria Tatar, eds. 1992 Neverending Stories: Toward a Critical Narratology (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press). Fleishman, Suzanne 1990 Tense and Narrativity: From Medieval Performance to Modern Fiction (London:Routledge). Fludernik, Monika 2000 “Beyond...

... to disrupt the telescopic present-tense continuation of milling in work. In The Cost of Living , by contrast, Levy employs the repetitive time of maintenance to override narratives of crisis and demonstrate instead the continuation of reproductive work. These competing investments in endurance exist because...

... : Presses Sorbonne Nouvelle ). Landeweerd Rita Vet Co 1996 “ Tense in (Free) Indirect Discourse in French ,” in Reported Speech: Forms and Functions of the Verb , edited by Janssen Theodorus Albertus Johannes Maria van der Wurff Wim , 141 – 64 ( Philadelphia : Benjamins...

... that often also define recipes: “the imperative, the frequent employment of the future tense, and the unambiguous distinction between the narrator and the narratee.” Equally, a narrative fiction can have the theme and function of a recipe, while at the same time omitting the imperative and future tenses...

... important publications in German to the English-speaking world. The first four articles deal with time from a philosophical perspective. Hans Reichenbach’s well-known “The Tenses of Verbs” (1947) proceeds from the observation that tenses of verbs determine time with reference to the temporal point...

... Reichenbach’s well-known “The Tenses of Verbs” (1947) proceeds from the observation that tenses of verbs determine time with reference to the temporal point of the speech act; he thus differentiates between the “point of speech,” the “point of the (reported) event,” and “the point of reference” (namely...

... articles deal with time from a philosophical perspective. Hans Reichenbach’s well-known “The Tenses of Verbs” (1947) proceeds from the observation that tenses of verbs determine time with reference to the temporal point of the speech act; he thus differentiates between the “point of speech,” the “point...

... Reichenbach’s well-known “The Tenses of Verbs” (1947) proceeds from the observation that tenses of verbs determine time with reference to the temporal point of the speech act; he thus differentiates between the “point of speech,” the “point of the (reported) event,” and “the point of reference” (namely...

... articles deal with time from a philosophical perspective. Hans Reichenbach’s well-known “The Tenses of Verbs” (1947) proceeds from the observation that tenses of verbs determine time with reference to the temporal point of the speech act; he thus differentiates between the “point of speech,” the “point...

... articles deal with time from a philosophical perspective. Hans Reichenbach’s well-known “The Tenses of Verbs” (1947) proceeds from the observation that tenses of verbs determine time with reference to the temporal point of the speech act; he thus differentiates between the “point of speech,” the “point...

... articles deal with time from a philosophical perspective. Hans Reichenbach’s well-known “The Tenses of Verbs” (1947) proceeds from the observation that tenses of verbs determine time with reference to the temporal point of the speech act; he thus differentiates between the “point of speech,” the “point...

... articles deal with time from a philosophical perspective. Hans Reichenbach’s well-known “The Tenses of Verbs” (1947) proceeds from the observation that tenses of verbs determine time with reference to the temporal point of the speech act; he thus differentiates between the “point of speech,” the “point...