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Tense and Narrativity: From Medieval Performance to Modern Fiction

Tense and Narrativity: From Medieval Performance to Modern Fiction

Fleischman, Suzanne

Paperback

Series: Texas Linguistics

Literary CriticismGeneral ReferenceLinguistics

ISBN10: 0292737262
ISBN13: 9780292737266
Publisher: Univ Of Texas Pr
Published: Mar 1 1990
Pages: 459
Weight: 1.48
Height: 1.02 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

In this pathfinding study, Suzanne Fleischman brings together theory and methodology from various quarters to shed important new light on the linguistic structure of narrative, a primary and universal device for translating our experiences into language.

Fleischman sees linguistics as laying the foundation for all narratological study, since it offers insight into how narratives are constructed in their most primary context: everyday speech. She uses a linguistic model designed for natural narrative to explicate the organizational structure of artificial narrative texts, primarily from the Middle Ages and the postmodern period, whose seemingly idiosyncratic use of tenses has long perplexed those who study them. Fleischman develops a functional theory of tense and aspect in narrative that accounts for the wide variety of functions-pragmatic as well as grammatical-that these two categories of grammar are called upon to perform in the linguistic economy of a narration.

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