Transparent Minds: Narrative Modes for Presenting Consciousness in Fiction

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.

Author: Dorrit Claire Cohn
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 02/21/1984
Pages: 344
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.15lbs
Size: 9.03h x 6.04w x 0.90d
ISBN: 9780691101569

About the Author
Dorrit Cohn is Professor of Germanic Languages and Literatures at Harvard University.