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Tempus : the world of discussion and the world of narration / Harald Weinrich, Jane K. Brown, and Marshall Brown.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Weinrich, Harald, author.
- Brown, Jane K., 1943- author.
- Brown, Marshall, 1945- author.
- Series:
- Verbal Arts: Studies in Poetics Series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Linguistics.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (299 pages)
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- München, Germany : Fordham University Press, [2023]
- Summary:
- Tempus studies tense uses, ancient and modern, in great literature and everyday life and in all the major languages of western Europe. The book lays the foundation for the discipline of text linguistics as well as being a masterwork of literary criticism in the tradition of Curtius, Auerbach, and Spitzer.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Translators' Note
- Introduction: Jane K. Brown and Marshall Brown
- 1. Tense in Texts
- Tense and Time
- Text Linguistics
- A Preliminary Reflection: Obstinate Signs
- Tense Distribution
- Two Tense Groups: Discussing and Narrating
- On the Freedom of the Narrator
- 2. Discussing-Narrating
- Syntax and Communication
- Register
- Tense in Different Genres
- The World of Discussion
- The World of Narrating
- Tense in the Language of Children
- 3. Perspective
- Time in Texts
- The Future (using French as an example)
- The Perfekt in German
- The Perfect in English
- Thornton Wilder: The Ides of March
- The Passé composé in French
- The Passato prossimo in Italian
- The Perfecto compuesto in Spanish
- Narration, Past, Truth
- 4. Highlighting
- Narrative Highlighting
- Narrative Tempo in the Novel
- Baudelaire: "Le vieux saltimbanque" (The Old Mountebank)
- Of the Tense of Death
- 5. Tense in Novellas and Short Stories: Highlighting vs. Aspect
- Maupassant
- Pirandello
- Unamuno, Darío, Echegaray
- Hemingway
- Frame Narrative (Boccaccio)
- Narration in the Middle Ages
- Frame and Highlighting in Modern Stories
- 6. Tense Transitions
- Tense in Dialogue
- Descartes, Rousseau, and the Sequence of Tenses
- 7. Tense Metaphors
- Tense Metaphors in Texts
- Condition and Consequence, Reality and Unreality
- 8. Tense Combinations
- Tense and Person
- Tense and Adverbs
- Combined Transitions
- Semi-finite Verbs
- 9. A Crisis in Narration
- Tense in Old French
- Evidence of Language Consciousness in French Classicism
- The Time of Newspapers
- Albert Camus: L'étranger
- Oral Narration in French
- A Parallel: Tense in South-German Dialects
- 10. Other Languages-Other Tenses
- Tense in Ancient Greek
- Tense in Latin.
- Whorf, Spengler, and the Hopi Indians
- Toward a New Method of Description
- Index.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- Description based on print version record.
- Other Format:
- Print version: Weinrich, Herald Tempus
- ISBN:
- 9781531503369
- 1531503365
- OCLC:
- 1414455449
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