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narrated monologue

a technique for the representation of a characters consciousness: the character's thoughts are reproduced in a way one would imagine the character to think, though the narrator continues to talk of the character in the third person. The voices of the narrator and the character are momentarily merged, they become a 'dual voice', also called free indirect discourse.

Frame Narration

Similar to framed narration, frame narration involves a story within a story. It typically features a narrator who recounts an experience or shares a tale told by another character.

external narration or narrator

A narrative technique in which the story is told from an outside perspective, typically from a third-person point of view. The narrator observes the events and characters but does not have access to the characters' internal thoughts unless explicitly stated.

internal narration or narrator

A narrative technique where the story is told from the perspective of a character's inner thoughts and feelings. The reader experiences the world and events from inside the character's mind, often through stream of consciousness or interior monologue.

multiple focalisation

"Same" event from different viewpoints

fragmentation

refers to the disjointed, non-linear, and incomplete presentation of events, thoughts, or narratives.

stream of consciousness

a style of writing that portrays the inner (often chaotic) workings of a character's mind.

linking devices

serve to connect fragmented elements of the narrative, creating coherence within a text that might otherwise appear disjointed or chaotic.

Linking device example

Big ben in Mrs Dalloway

Ellipses

Used to suggest hesitation, attempt to conceal something, unfinished thought, or difficulty expressing oneself

epiphany

A moment of sudden revelation or insight, turn in the story where a character may have a sudden change in thought etc.

Meliorism

the belief that the world can be made better by human effort

direct speech

A way of writing which quotes actual words spoken between quotation marks. (though modernists like to not participate in quotation marks!)

personal time

the time we feel it is or time we feel something took without the actual time structure of hours on the clock

chronological time

Using time order and speaking of the linear time by clock.

the tradition of the new

using something known in a new way or reinventing something that already exists!

Modernists anti-historical?

Their approach to history was one of rethinking, fragmenting, and reconstructing, rather than a simple rejection of the past.

Realism

A 19th century artistic movement in which writers and painters sought to show life as it is rather than life as it should be

verisimilitude

the quality of appearing to be true, real, likely, or probable

Irish literary revival

A movement that aimed to promote Irish literature and coincided with a renewed interest in Gaelic Irish heritage

in medias res

in or into the middle of a plot; into the middle of things

flat characters

One-dimensional, stereotypical characters who are typically minor characters in a story

round characters

Characters who have some or many different traits that form a complex personality.

übermensch

the creator of new values who has gotten "over" the old ones gone "beyond good and evil" lives according to his/her own artistic design by consciously harnessing and directing his/her will to power (Nietzsche)

Bildungsroman

A novel or story whose theme is the moral or psychological growth of the main character.

Künstlerroman

Exploration of intellectual, emotional and aesthetic capacities

Id freud

innate biological instinct and urges; self serving, irrational, and totally unconscious

super-ego Freud

"moral watchdog" governs behavior by reality and morality, often taught by parents, church and/or community

Themes and borders

Often discussed in modernist works as they make a point out of showing concepts bordering to each other or putting them against each other.

look within virginia woolf

It refers to the act of turning inward to examine personal thoughts, feelings, and perceptions, as opposed to focusing on external events or a linear plot.

Naturalism

A nineteenth-century literary movement that was an extension of realism and that claimed to portray life exactly as it was.

Modernism

artistic and literary movement sparked by a break with past conventions

Uncle charles principle

Third-person narration is infused with the language of the character that's being

depicted at that precise moment. Linguistically and emotionally.

interior monologue

writing that records the conversation that occurs inside a character's head

colloquial writing

Characteristic of ordinary conversation rather than formal speech or writing

Make it new

Ezra Pound's expression which summarizes the need for change felt in the period. The modernist age was a reaction against the Victorian period. The modernists wanted a refresh and to make everything new.

multi-layered self

the concept of identity as being complex, dynamic, and composed of several interwoven aspects that shape an individual's sense of self.

The cinematic principle

Reads as if the narrator is wielding a camera

zooming in on several characters one by one by means of a number of linking devices.

thought report

Very mediated, not a real stream of consciousness because the stream of thoughts is processed by the narrator 'he thought', ...

mimesis

showing: drama, film, dialogues... no mediation, direct thoughts

diegesis

The total world of a story—the events, characters, objects, settings, and sounds that form the world in which the story occurs.

narrational omniscience

narrator knows of everything and flies above the story

tunneling process

Dig a tunnel piece by piece when

needed to give the characters more dept

Inward turn

Look within

Umwelt

every individual has its own Umwelt where it depends on what is present in its world and what it can do