The Present Tense in Modern Hindi FictionThe Present Tense in Modern Hindi Fiction contributes to the interpretation of Hindi prose by analysing the use of the present tense in over 250 texts. While sketching the history of the present tense in Hindi fiction, the book focuses primarily on the narrative techniques that invite its use, such as interior monologue, free indirect discourse, consonant psycho-narration, and camera eye. Moreover, it offers a fresh interpretation of the two types of present tense found in Hindi. The indexes of authors, titles, and analytical concepts provide easy access to the analyses. The book will also be of interest to scholars studying the use of the present tense in modern fiction worldwide. The present tense is used more widely in Hindi than in languages such as English, and some trends that are also found in the literatures of other languages (such as the occurrence of the present tense in internal sensory focalisation) are more clearly visible in Hindi fiction. More importantly, a new explanation of present-tense passages is proposed which can also be applied elsewhere. Insight into this technique, referred to as Internal Focalisation of Awareness, leads to a better understanding of present-tense texts. |
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... discussed in other studies does not furnish sufficient evidence for the existence of that phenomenon , and the present tense used for narrating events is here taken always to refer to the past . It is a point that will be further discussed ...
... discussed in other studies does not furnish sufficient evidence for the existence of that phenomenon , and the present tense used for narrating events is here taken always to refer to the past . It is a point that will be further discussed ...
Page 86
... discussed in the Introduction , is entirely written in the present tense . " That tense is also used in its three external flashbacks , which relate the way Pārmitā has experienced earlier interviews and their outcome . Subjective as ...
... discussed in the Introduction , is entirely written in the present tense . " That tense is also used in its three external flashbacks , which relate the way Pārmitā has experienced earlier interviews and their outcome . Subjective as ...
Page 216
... discussed refers to the time of narrating ) applies no longer when the narrator tells the story . This explanatory comment is continued with a flashback about how the grass used to be cut in earlier days , and how later on the woman got ...
... discussed refers to the time of narrating ) applies no longer when the narrator tells the story . This explanatory comment is continued with a flashback about how the grass used to be cut in earlier days , and how later on the woman got ...
Contents
Quoted discourse and internal focalisation | 14 |
Internal focalisation of awareness | 33 |
Psychological insight in early texts | 48 |
Copyright | |
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actions actorial addresses appears awareness beginning belongs brief called chapter character character-bound character's close comes concerned consonant psycho-narration contains contents continuous present contrast deals Delhi direct discussed effect emotional entire example experiencing explained expresses eyes fact feelings final flashback forms frequent furnished girl haim hand Hindi hūṁ indicated initial inquit insight interior monologue internal focalisation interpretation introduction lack later leave less look main character means meṁ mind moment mother narrative narrator narratorial nature noted novel observed occurs paragraph passage past tense perception performing person preceding present tense protagonist quoted rahā rahi reader refer remembers retroversions reveals scene seems seen sentence shows similar situation starts story style subjective suggests take place taken takes techniques tells term thinking third thoughts tion told verb woman written
Bibliographic information
| Title | The Present Tense in Modern Hindi Fiction Brill Book Archive Part 1, ISBN: 9789004472495 Volume 12 of Gonda indological studies, ISSN 1382-3442 |
| Author | Th Damsteegt |
| Publisher | Egbert Forsten, 2004 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 9 May 2008 |
| ISBN | 9069801477, 9789069801476 |
| Length | 243 pages |
| Subjects | › › History / Europe / General Social Science / Ethnic Studies / General Social Science / Human Geography |
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