Original scientific paper
Tense and Verbal Mood in the Short Story „Reflective eternity“ by Janko Leskovar
Nikica Mihaljević
; Filozofski fakultet Sveučilišta u Splitu, Split, Hrvatska
Marijana Tomelić-Ćurlin
; Filozofski fakultet Sveučilišta u Splitu, Split, Hrvatska
Abstract
The paper analyses the short story A thought of eternity by the Croatian author Janko leskovar applying the method that was proposed by Harald Weinrich in his study Tempus. Besprochene und erzählte Welt. The author analyses the category of tense and its role in a literary text. He studies the category of tense by dividing the results in two groups: verbs which belong to a debative world and verbs which belong to a narrative world. From the linguistic perspective, the author differentiates three levels: restored information (retrospective), zero-level, anticipated information (prediction). Tenses can also be divided into groups according to the emphasis in the text: it can be placed in the foreground or in the background of the short story. According to the results obtained, it will be possible to discover some styllistic particularities of the text.
Keywords
future; tense; debative world; background; past; foreground; future; narrative world; present; remembrance; oblivion
Hrčak ID:
33984
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Publication date:
20.2.2009.
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