Free indirect style in modernism : representations of consciousness / Eric Rundquist, Pontifical Catholic University of Chile.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rundquist, Eric, author.

Series:

Linguistic approaches to literature ; Volume 29.

Linguistic Approaches to Literature (LAL), 1569-3112 ; Volume 29

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Indirect discourse in literature.

Fiction--Technique.

Fiction.

Modernism (Literature).

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam, [Netherlands] ; Philadelphia, [Pennsylvania] : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2017.

Summary:

This book consolidates the existing literary linguistic scholarship concerning FIS into a theory that is based around one of its most important effects: consciousness representation.

Contents:

Intro

Free Indirect Style in Modernism

Editorial page

Title page

LCC data

Dedication page

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements

Key to acronyms

Introduction

1. Free Indirect Style and a consciousness category approach

1.1 FIT and the representation of thought

1.1a Thought and language

1.1b Non-verbal thought and FIT

1.1c Mimetic diegesis and representation

1.2 Beyond thought FIT to FIS

1.2a Free Indirect Perception and the was-now paradox

1.2b Free Indirect Psycho-narration and the Consciousness Category Approach

1.2c The parameters of FIS

1.3 The problem of the narrator and the possibility of dual subjectivities in FIS

1.3a The original dual voice theory

1.3b The communication model vs. no-narrator theory

1.3c Dual subjectivity

1.4 Modernist fiction, FIS and consciousness

1.4a Summary and overview

2. A consciousness category approach to To the Lighthouse

2.1 Background

2.1a The cognitive turn away from the consciousness categories

2.1b Woolf's Modernist objectives

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2.2a On the threshold of verbalisation

2.2b Other aspects of Mrs Ramsay's consciousness

2.3 Adapting 'mind-style' to a stream of consciousness analysis

2.4 Consciousness-representation and transparent fictional minds

3. FIS and the voice of the Other in The Rainbow

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3.2 Establishing the presence of an authorial narrator

3.2a Brief intrusions

3.3 A summative perspective within FIS

3.4 Expressing the unconscious in FIS

3.4a Implicating the unconscious with rhetorical devices

3.4b Metaphors, stylistic expressivity and authorial voice

3.5 The voice of the Other and the ambiguous 'I'

4. Caught between figural subjectivity and narratorial exuberance in "Scylla and Charybdis"

4.1 Background: The narratological dilemma of agency in Ulysses.

4.2 Overview of the "Scylla" narrative and style

4.2a Initial analysis

4.2b The possibility of a narratorial reading

4.3 Evidence for the FIS representation of Stephen's consciousness

4.3a Evidence of FIP

4.3b Stylistic deviation as FIS

4.3c Narratological perspectives on Stephen's subjectivity

4.3d Non-reflective consciousness and parallel processing

4.4 Ambiguous FIS as dual subjectivity

4.4a Metafiction in "Scylla"

5. Conclusions

5.1 General findings

5.2 Analytical findings

5.3 A defence of 'representationalism' and future research directions

References

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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