ABSTRACT
In the Routledge Encyclopedia of Narrative Theory (2005) Monika Fludernik suggests that time in narrative can be viewed from three different perspectives: first, the general, philosophical aspect of temporality and its significance for the levels of story and discourse; second, the relationship between the story and discourse levels; and third, the grammatical and morphological devices used (tense markers) and their significance for the levels of discourse and story. She stresses the study of two temporal levels, that of the story and that of the discourse, leading to the analysis of chronological distortions of the surface level of the narrative text and the surface-structure analysis of tense in narrative (Fludernik, 2005, pp. 608-09).
