Transparent Minds: Narrative Modes for Presenting Consciousness in Fiction - Hardcover

Cohn, Dorrit Claire

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0691063699 ISBN 13: 9780691063690

Publisher: Princeton University Press, 1978

Synopsis

This book investigates the entire spectrum of techniques for portraying the mental lives of fictional characters in both the stream-of-consciousness novel and other fiction. Each chapter deals with one main technique, illustrated from a wide range of nineteenth- and twentieth-century fiction by writers including Stendhal, Dostoevsky, James, Mann, Kafka, Joyce, Proust, Woolf, and Sarraute.

About this title

About the Author

Dorrit Cohn is Professor of Germanic Languages and Literatures at Harvard University.

From the Back Cover

"This is a book of international stature that cuts through to an understanding of one of the central aspects of 'modernism.' I long to hand it to my students."--David Hayman, University of Wisconsin

Edition details

• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Publication date: 1978
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0691063699
• ISBN 13: 9780691063690
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 344