For anyone interested in free indirect discourse and narratology the
below paper I found on internet may be of interest.... (sorry, have to
use a search, I hate keeping bookmarks.)
I feel like going on a little reading binge on FID, so other
suggestions welcomed.
Studies in Canadian literature
FOUR CHARACTERS IN SEARCH OF
A NARRATOR: FOCALIZATION AND THE
REPRESENTATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS
IN UNDER THE VOLCANO
Jennifer Lawn
The summaries are great to have but the same old problem of narratology
when it comes to FID... assume transcendental position, make
FID transcendent, horizon absolute and local. (Absolute in the sense of
always changing and not the popular sense of fixed and certain which
presupposes relation, of course, and so is not absolute.) It seems to
matter little which transcendental, a priori or a transcendental cutting
across as coming after, the problem persists. In FID narrative is
absolute and univocal which is perhaps why it presents such a difficulty
for narratology established on a tradition of understanding narrative
as essentially relation (atom, monad, nomad, even with outside forces of
the fold making non-relation a relation to summarise Deleuze.)
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