Free Indirect Style (with examples from James Joyce) Cover Image
  • Price 4.90 €

Slobodni neupravni govor (s primjerima iz Joycea)
Free Indirect Style (with examples from James Joyce)

Author(s): Sonja Basic
Subject(s): Literary Texts
Published by: Hrvatsko filološko društvo

Summary/Abstract: The first part of the paper discusses recent linguistic and narratological approaches to free indirect style (Genette, Dorrit Cohn and Brian McHale). Free indirect style is related to other kinds of narrative transmission such as focalization and especially to border areas in which authorial discourse is »coloured« by figural speech/thought or where verbalized figural »thought« is blended with presumably non verbalized perceptions. Examples from Portrait of the Artist and Ulysses are selected to illustrate Joyce's extraordinarily varied and inventive use of this mode. In Portrait FIS is the dominant mode, although very often subverted by non-mimetic strategies in principle incompatible with its nature. It is also shown that contrary to accepted opinion there is very little FIS in Ulysses where the mode is brilliantly parodied not only in »Nausicaa« but as the author argues, in »Eumaeus« as well.

  • Issue Year: 1991
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 107-134
  • Page Count: 12
  • Language: Croatian