In:Free Indirect Style in Modernism: Representations of consciousness
Eric Rundquist
[Linguistic Approaches to Literature 29] 2017
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Published online: 30 November 2017
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Table of contents
Acknowledgements
IX
Key to acronyms
XI
Introduction
XIII
Chapter 1.Free Indirect Style and a consciousness category approach
1
1.1Fit and the representation of thought
1
1.1aThought and language
7
1.1bNon-verbal thought and FIT
13
1.1cMimetic diegesis and representation
21
1.2Beyond thought: FIT to FIS
27
1.2aFree Indirect Perception and the was-now paradox
29
1.2bFree Indirect Psycho-narration and the consciousness category
approach
35
1.2cThe parameters of FIS
40
1.3The problem of the narrator and the possibility of dual subjectivities in
FIS
45
1.3aThe original dual voice theory
46
1.3bThe communication model vs. no-narrator theory
48
1.3cDual subjectivity
52
1.4Modernist fiction, FIS and consciousness
54
1.4aSummary and overview
61
Chapter 2.A consciousness category approach to To the Lighthouse
65
2.1Background
66
2.1aThe cognitive turn away from the consciousness categories
66
2.1bWoolf’s Modernist objectives
69
2.2The linguistic representation of Mrs Ramsay’s consciousness
71
2.2aOn the threshold of verbalisation
73
2.2bOther aspects of Mrs Ramsay’s consciousness
78
2.3Adapting ‘mind-style’ to a stream of consciousness analysis
84
2.4Consciousness-representation and transparent fictional minds
90
Chapter 3.FIS and the voice of the Other in The Rainbow
97
3.1Background: the perception of an authorial narrator in Lawrence’s
fiction
98
3.2Establishing the presence of an authorial narrator
102
3.2aBrief intrusions
106
3.3A summative perspective within FIS
109
3.4Expressing the unconscious in FIS
113
3.4aImplicating the unconscious with rhetorical devices
114
3.4bMetaphors, stylistic expressivity and authorial voice
118
3.5The voice of the Other and the ambiguous ‘I’
123
Chapter 4.Caught between figural subjectivity and narratorial exuberance in “Scylla and
Charybdis”
131
4.1Background: the narratological dilemma of agency in
Ulysses
133
4.2Overview of the ‘Scylla’ narrative and style
136
4.2aInitial analysis
138
4.2bThe possibility of a narratorial reading
145
4.3Evidence for the FIS representation of Stephen’s consciousness
147
4.3aEvidence of FIP
150
4.3bStylistic deviation as FIS
153
4.3cNarratological perspectives on Stephen’s subjectivity
156
4.3dNon-reflective consciousness and parallel processing
159
4.4Ambiguous FIS as dual subjectivity
164
4.4aMetafiction in ‘Scylla’
166
Chapter 5.Conclusions
173
5.1General findings
173
5.2Analytical findings
176
5.3A defence of ‘representationalism’ and future research directions
179
References
183
Index
195
