{"product_id":"present-tense-armen-avanessian-9781628927641","title":"Present Tense: A Poetics","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe invention of the present-tense novel is a literary event whose importance is on par with the discovery of perspective in painting. From the first novels shaped by interior monologues and the use of the present tense in the tradition of modernism, the present tense has, over the course of its century-long evolution, changed the conditions of fictional narration, along with our conceptions of time in a philosophical and linguistic framework. Indeed, to understand the work of an increasing number of contemporary writers - J.M. Coetzee, Tom McCarthy, Thomas Pynchon, to name only a few - it is necessary to both understand the distinct linguistic and literary qualities of the present tense as well as its historical transformation into a genuine tense of contemporary storytelling. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFor the first time in literary scholarship, \u003ci\u003ePresent Tense: A Poetics\u003c\/i\u003e offers an account of a profound development in 20th- and 21st-century fiction.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Armen Avanessian,Anke Hennig\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 162892764X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781628927641\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Bloomsbury Academic\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/24\/2015\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 304\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.90lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.40h x 5.40w x 0.80d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 03\/01\/2016","brand":"Armen Avanessian","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48485695750399,"sku":"9781628927641","price":40.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_e6d2f3af-3af0-42ee-ad17-b7b993f0e5e3.jpg?v=1778050956","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/present-tense-armen-avanessian-9781628927641","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}