Transparent Minds: Narrative Modes for Presenting Consciousness in Fiction

by Dorrit Cohn

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691101566
• ISBN13: 9780691101569
• Release Date: February 1984
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 344 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"