Focusing on the growing trend of employing the present tense in storytelling, this book explores present-tense narrative in contemporary fiction. Using a corpus
One of our most valuable capacities is our ability partly to predict what will come next in a text. But linguistic understanding of this remains very limited, e
In this book, Irmtraud Huber considers a wide range of contemporary novels to explore the variety of possibilities and effects of the use of the present tense,
Responding to the current surge in present-tense novels, Making Time is an innovative contribution to narratological research on present-tense usage in narrativ