Tense in the Novel: An Investigation of Some Potentialities of Linguistic Criticism

A. S. Byatt adverbs Aussagesubjekt chapter character character-I context contrasts D. H. Lawrence David Lodge deviation direct narration discourse discussing Edmund emotive English Poetry Enkvist epic preterite Essays explication fact fiction first-person novel foregrounding free indirect speech free indirect style function future tense grammar grammatical tenses Halliday Harald Weinrich I. A. Richards Ibid interpretation Iris Murdoch Italian Girl Käte Hamburger Käte Hamburger's Levin lexical linguistic criticism linguistic description linguistic features literary criticism literary language literary texts literature Logik der Dichtung London Lydia means metaphor modern linguistics moral mother narrative narrator-I norm occurs Otto passage philosophical pluperfect poem poetic language present tense problem pronoun prose reader reality reference Review Richards Riffaterre's Roger Fowler semantic sense sentence Spitzer Stephen Ullmann story structure stylistic suggests symbolic T. A. Sebeok tense forms tense-system theory third time-sphere time-level verb words writing York zero tense