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OverviewIn 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. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Suzanne FleischmanPublisher: University of Texas Press Imprint: University of Texas Press Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.60cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.454kg ISBN: 9780292737266ISBN 10: 0292737262 Pages: 459 Publication Date: 01 March 1990 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsAbbreviations Preface Introduction Chapter 1. Working Definitions and Operational Preliminaries 1.1. Tense 1.2. Aspect 1.3. Situation types 1.4. Grammar, discourse, and the meaning of tense-aspect categories 1.5. Tenses of the past system 1.6. Tenses of the present system 1.7. Tense-aspect in early Romance Chapter 2. A Theory of Tense-Aspect in Narrative Based on Markedness 2.1. The concept of markedness 2.2. Markedness and tense-aspect categories in narrative Chapter 3. “Ungrammatical” Tenses: Background of the Question 3.1. Scope of the phenomenon 3.2. Diegetic and mimetic discourse 3.3. Grammatical “freedom” of the early vernaculars 3.4. Tense alternation as a mark of “literary” écritures 3.5. Prosodic considerations 3.6. Aspectual hypotheses and “situation types” 3.7. The HISTORICAL PRESENT: The “past-more-vivid” 3.8. The NARRATIVE PRESENT, HISTORICAL PRESENT, and PRESENT tense 3.9. Participant tracking 3.10. From oral performance to écriture: Oral residue in written texts 3.11. Performed stories: Medieval and modern, natural and artificial Chapter 4. Narrative Discourse: Typological Considerations 4.1. Verbal representations of experience: Story structure and reality structure 4.2. Differentia specifica of narrative textuality 4.3. Stories, narratives, and other verbalizations of experience 4.4. Narrative fiction 4.5. Modes of discourse: “Storytelling” and “communication” 4.6. Linguistic marks of storytelling 4.7. Tense and aspect as metalinguistic signals of narrative genres Chapter 5. The Linguistic Structure of Narrative Part I. Temporal Structure 5.1. Speaker-now and story-now 5.2. Retrospective discourse and prospective time 5.3. Iconic sequence and the narrative norm Part II. Text Structure 5.4. The global structure of narrative 5.5. Evaluation 5.6. Adapting the natural narrative model to complex narrations 5.7. The clausal structure of narrative 5.8. Conclusion Chapter 6. Textual Functions Part I. Grounding: The “Texture” of the Text 6.1. The foreground-background contrast 6.2. Toward a theory of grounding 6.3. Grounding and parataxis 6.4. Tense-aspect and grounding 6.5. Creating cohesion: The chansons de geste Part II. Boundary Marking: The “Space” of the Text 6.6. Tense switching and the segmentation of narrative texts Part III. Information Blocking: The “Tempo” of the Text 6.7. “Co-subordinate” nexus 6.8. Pacing the discourse Chapter 7. Expressive Functions 7.1. Point of view and focalization 7.2. The Speaker and the experiencer 7.3. Free indirect discourse 7.4. Interior monologue 7.5. Tense, temporality, and focalization 7.6. Time, tense, and memory in Proust 7.7. Point of view and the PERFECT 7.8. Tense-aspect and point of view in natural narration 7.9. Conclusion Chapter 8. Metalinguistic Functions: Storytelling in the PRESENT 8.1. Epic storytelling: Narration without time 8.2. Romancero: The fragmenting of narrative 8.3. The HISTORICAL PRESENT and beyond 8.4. Transformations of narration in the nouveau roman 8.5. PRESENT-tense fiction: Where is it moving? Conclusion Appendix 1. Coding Conventions Appendix 2. Texts Notes References I. Texts Cited II. Critical Works Concept and Name Index Index of Texts CitedReviews...Fleischman's book takes the study of medieval literature to new hermeneutic horizons... Furthermore, through the use of sociolinguistics she connects the modern and medieval worlds in a way that will make the medieval world less alien to us, and thus her perspective gives us another means by which we can make medieval literature more relevant to our students. Studies in the Age of Chaucer ...Fleischman's book takes the study of medieval literature to new hermeneutic horizons... Furthermore, through the use of sociolinguistics she connects the modern and medieval worlds in a way that will make the medieval world less alien to us, and thus her perspective gives us another means by which we can make medieval literature more relevant to our students. - Studies in the Age of Chaucer Author InformationSuzanne Fleischman (1948–2000) was Professor of French and Romance Philology at the University of California. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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