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.
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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
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"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
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This is a thoroughly excellent study of characterization and consciousness in the novel--it's precise, thorough, clearly written, and persuasively argued. Readers looking for a discussion of neurology and consciousness won't find it here, though. The book's focus is squarely on literary form, and here Cohn excels. One of the most enlightening lit crit books I have ever come across--and especially useful for those interested in close analysis of style in modern literature.
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