Transparent Minds: Narrative Modes for Presenting Consciousness in Fiction / Edition 1

by Dorrit Claire Cohn

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780691101569
Publisher:	Princeton University Press
Publication date:	02/21/1984
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	344
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

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

What People are Saying About This

From the Publisher

"This is a book of international stature that cuts through to an understanding of one of the central aspects of 'modernism.' I long to hand it to my students."—David Hayman, University of Wisconsin

David Hayman

This is a book of international stature that cuts through to an understanding of one of the central aspects of 'modernism.' I long to hand it to my students.
— David Hayman, University of Wisconsin

Editorial Reviews

A lucid, thoroughgoing analysis of the novelist's art, a study that not only reveals the grammatical and stylistic scaffolding on which character is built, but also imparts new insights into individual characters and the works in which they appear. A truly outstanding accomplishment.

World Literature Today - William Riggan

I am willing to predict that Transparent Minds will serve the present generation of graduate students the way Frye's Anatomy of Criticism served a preceding one.

Canadian Review of Comparative Literature - Marilyn Gaddis Rose

A lucid, thoroughgoing analysis of the novelist's art, a study that not only reveals the grammatical and stylistic scaffolding on which character is built, but also imparts new insights into individual characters and the works in which they appear. A truly outstanding accomplishment.
— William Riggan

World Literature Today

I am willing to predict that Transparent Minds will serve the present generation of graduate students the way Frye's Anatomy of Criticism served a preceding one.
— Marilyn Gaddis Rose

Canadian Review of Comparative Literature

"I am willing to predict that Transparent Minds will serve the present generation of graduate students the way Frye's Anatomy of Criticism served a preceding one."—-Marilyn Gaddis Rose, Canadian Review of Comparative Literature

"A lucid, thoroughgoing analysis of the novelist's art, a study that not only reveals the grammatical and stylistic scaffolding on which character is built, but also imparts new insights into individual characters and the works in which they appear. A truly outstanding accomplishment."—-William Riggan, World Literature Today

From the Publisher