Tempus: The World of Discussion and the World of Narration

Author/Contributor(s):	Weinrich, Harald
Publisher:	Fordham University Press
Date:	02/06/2024
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

Tempus studies tense uses, ancient and modern, in great literature and everyday life and in all the major languages of western Europe. The book lays the foundation for the discipline of text linguistics as well as being a masterwork of literary criticism in the tradition of Curtius, Auerbach, and Spitzer.