Narrative personae and desire in modernist fiction /

Examining modernist fiction in the context of a longer tradition of narrative impersonality, this book explores how narrative language renders subjective states of interiority and desire. Inspired by linguistic analyses of the 'speakerless sentences' of narrative language and their unoccup...

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Gespeichert in:
1. Verfasser:
Ohi, Kevin
Format:
Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:
Englisch
Veröffentlicht:
Oxford : Oxford University Press, [2025]
Zusammenfassung:
Examining modernist fiction in the context of a longer tradition of narrative impersonality, this book explores how narrative language renders subjective states of interiority and desire. Inspired by linguistic analyses of the 'speakerless sentences' of narrative language and their unoccupied centers of perception, Kevin Ohi argues that modernist texts are populated by quasi-persons: narrative 'voices' that are impersonal while trailing effects of personality, and characters whose personhood is suspended, the incisive rendering of psychology and desire produced by externalizations of consciousness.
Umfang:
1 online resource : illustrations.
Zielpublikum:
Specialized.
Bibliografie:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
0-19-897251-2
0-19-897253-9
Schlagworte:
English fiction > 20th century > History and criticism.
American fiction > 20th century > History and criticism.
Modernism (Literature)
Desire in literature.
Literature.
Literature: history & criticism.
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