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

Cohn, Dorrit Claire

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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.

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About the Author

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

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"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

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ISBN 10:  0691101566 ISBN 13:  9780691101569
Publisher: Princeton University Press, 1984
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