Free Indirect Style in Modernism : Representations of Consciousness.

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 -- Anchor 53 -- 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 -- Anchor 50 -- 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.

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.

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