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A brief introduction remarks on the prevalence and contentiousness of present tense today and points to the need to recognise the heterogeneity of present-tense usage in contemporary fiction.
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Huber, I. (2016). Introduction. In: Present Tense Narration in Contemporary Fiction. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-56213-5_1
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