Mind reading : : unframed interior monologue in European fiction /

Mind reading : : unframed interior monologue in European fiction / / Vladimir Tumanov.

In this book literary interior monologue is considered in relation to extraliterary phenomena, as well as narrative theory. The central question posed by this study is: what makes a particular interior monologue "believable," given the unobservable nature of human thought? The discussion r...

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Superior document:Internationale Forschungen Zur Allgemeinen und Vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft Series ; v.19
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Tumanov, Vladimir,
Place / Publishing House:Amsterdam : : Brill Academic Publishers,, 2023.
Year of Publication:2023
Edition:1st ed.
Language:English
Series:Internationale Forschungen Zur Allgemeinen und Vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft Series
Physical Description:1 online resource (142 pages)
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Table of Contents:
  • INTRODUCTION.
  • 1. Interior Monologue: Direct and Indirect.
  • 2. UDIM and the Question of Mimesis.
  • 3. Addresser vs. Addressee: The Communicative Implications of the Self-Communication Premise.
  • CHAPTER ONE. INNER SPEECH.
  • 1.1. Inner Speech: Fact or Fiction?
  • 1.2. Electromyographic and Other Experimental Data: Indirect Evidence.
  • 1.3. Message Reduction in Inner Speech: Theme vs. Rheme.
  • 1.4. Rheme Dominance.
  • 1.5. The Realism of UDIM.
  • CHAPTER TWO. VSEVOLOD GARSHIN: FOUR DAYS.
  • 2.1. Background.
  • 2.2. Now or Then?
  • 2.3. Scene vs. Summary.
  • 2.4. Framing.
  • 2.5. Interior Dialogue.
  • 2.6. Discourse Planning.
  • 2.7. Explanatory Comments.
  • 2.8. Time Span.
  • CHAPTER THREE. EDOUARD DUJARDIN: LES LAURIERS SONT COUPÉS.
  • 3.1. Background.
  • 3.2. Sensorimotor Discourse vs. Internal Reflection.
  • 3.3. Private Communication.
  • 3.4. Discourse Abbreviation.
  • 3.5. Unpolished Discourse.
  • 3.6. Repetition.
  • 3.7. Nominal Phrases.
  • 3.8. Perception vs. Introspection.
  • 3.9. Dialogue and the Dialogue-Framing Message.
  • 3.10. Verba Dicendi and Dialogue.
  • 3.11. Abbreviation vs. Expansion.
  • CHAPTER FOUR. ARTHUR SCHNITZLER: LEUTNANT GUSTL.
  • 4.1. Background.
  • 4.2. Elements of Spontaneous Oral Discourse: Syntactic Dimension.
  • 4.3. Discourse Abbreviation: Morphological Dimension.
  • 4.4. Self-Guiding Interior Dialogue as a Plot Development Mechanism.
  • 4.5. The Verbal Nature of Interior Dialogue: Thought as Discourse.
  • 4.6. Interior Dialogue and the Mnemonic Process.
  • 4.7. Plot Structure and Thought Association.
  • 4.8. Sensorimotor Discourse.
  • CHAPTER FIVE. VALÉRY LARBAUD: AMANTS, HEUREUX AMANTS ...
  • 5.1. Background.
  • 5.2. Context vs. Syntax and Discourse Abbreviation: Echoes of Dujardin.
  • 5.3. Verba Dicendi.
  • 5.4. Inflections.
  • 5.5. Missing Links and Cultural Echoes.
  • 5.6. Unnaming.
  • 5.7. Pronominal Privacy.
  • 5.8. Passé Composé vs. Passé Simple.
  • CONCLUSION.
  • BIBLIOGRAPHY.

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