Transparent Minds Narrative Modes for Presenting Consciousness in Fiction [Paperback]

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.

Dorrit Cohnis Professor of Germanic Languages and Literatures at Harvard University. I am willing to predict thatTransparent Mindswill serve the present generation of graduate students the way Frye'sAnatomy of Criticismserved 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 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