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Stream of Consciousness in the Modern Novel
Stream of Consciousness in the Modern Novel by Robert Humphrey is a foundational study that clarifies one of the most elusive terms in modern literary criticism. While \"stream of consciousness\" has often been applied loosely to a wide range of works, Humphrey offers a precise definition: fiction that emphasizes the prespeech levels of consciousness in order to reveal the psychic being of characters. Focusing on the major practitioners--Dorothy Richardson, James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, and William Faulkner--he identifies the varied purposes behind their use of inner awareness: from Woolf's search for mystical vision, to Joyce's comic objectivity, to Faulkner's tragic exploration of psychic conflict. In doing so, he situates these writers within broader philosophical and psychological currents while distinguishing their methods from earlier naturalism and experimental realism. The book is not merely theoretical but also practical, serving as an inductive manual of how stream-of-consciousness fiction is constructed. Humphrey systematically analyzes the functions, techniques, devices, and forms that shape this mode of narrative, including interior monologue, time- and space-montage, suspended coherence, and metaphorical transformation. By concentrating on technique, he demonstrates how these authors expanded the possibilities of fiction, moving beyond external action to depict the inner drama of thought, memory, and vision. First published in 1954, Stream of Consciousness in the Modern Novel remains an indispensable resource for students and scholars of modernism, offering both a framework for understanding a pivotal literary form and an evaluation of its artistic achievements. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them
voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1954. Many titles in the Voices Revived program are also newly available as ebooks, offered at a discounted price to support wider access to scholarly work.
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El regreso al hogar frente al movimiento sin retorno: estudio de El mar de John Banville desde una perspectiva levinasiana
Partiendo de la oposición que establece Emmanuel Levinas entre la vuelta a la consciencia como regreso al hogar y la teoría de la huella del otro como movimiento hacia la alteridad o movimiento sin retorno, este artículo analiza el modo en que la configuración narrativa de El mar (2005) de John Banville presenta una dialéctica interna entre dos movimientos opuestos, uno interno y otro externo. Basándome en la percepción por parte de Levinas de la totalidad como la reducción que el Mismo hace del Otro, realizaré un análisis de los protagonistas, Max y su esposa Anna, considerando la vuelta a casa de Max como un viaje totalizador que ensalza su propia individualidad en tanto que las fotografías que Anna, enferma terminal de cáncer de estómago, realiza de los pacientes que la acompañan durante su estancia en el hospital representan la conceptualización levinasiana de la responsabilidad infinita que el Mismo tiene hacia el Otro. Mediante la confluencia de las teorías de la huella del otro de Levinas, el inconsciente óptico de Walter Benjamin y el concepto fotográfico del punctum de Roland Barthes, mostraré cómo las imágenes tomadas por Anna destacan la necesidad de nuevas narrativas sociales de carácter ético que alienten aspectos de integración social y de igualdad en términos de discapacidad y desmantelen la percepción del concepto normalidad como un elemento restrictivo y, en términos levinasianos, ontológico.
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You make the world
\"A loving ode from a father to his young son about the inherent power he holds within himself\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Stream of consciousness : poetics of the universal
On perusing Stream of Consciousness: Poetics of the Universal by Peter Wuteh Vakunta, one is struck by the eclectic and englobing nature of themes broached. Vakunta�s poetry is both a transversal and longitudinal dissection of our world. The poet assumes the posture of a divinity casting interrogative glances at the deeds of humans. Not a single terrestrial creature evades his prying eyes. Even the most subtle creatures on Planet Earth are scathed by the poet�s effusion of vitriolic emotions. The poet pursues evil-doers right into their graves. Even in their death throes, he continues to deal them fatal blows. Armed with a caustic pen, this chronicler does not sit on the fence and watch events transpire. Instead, he speaks for the downtrodden of all races and social strata: black, white, yellow, Papuan, Andalusian, wretched, opulent. This adds grist to the title of the book. The poet distances himself from the rigor of Kant and the moralism of La Rochefoucauld. Weary of hearing the voices of humans in distress, he paints the portrait of another kind of Humanity. Vakunta�s poetry celebrates the harmonious cohabitation of verbal sophistry with the power of the word.
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Historicizing the Enlightenment.: (Literature, the arts, and the aesthetic in Britain)
Enlightenment critics from Dryden through Johnson and Wordsworth conceived the modern view that art and especially literature entails a double reflection: a reflection of the world, and a reflection on the process by which that reflection is accomplished. Instead \"neoclassicism\" and \"Augustanism\" have been falsely construed as involving a one-dimensional imitation of classical texts and an unselfconscious representation of the world. In fact these Enlightenment movements adopted an oblique perspective that registers the distance between past tradition and its present reenactment, between representation and presence. Two modern movements, Romanticism and modernism, have appropriated as their own these innovations, which derive from Enlightenment thought. Both of these movements ground their error in a misreading of \"imitation\" as understood by Aristotle and his Enlightenment proponents. Rightly understood, neoclassical imitation, constitutively aware of the difference between what it knows and how it knows it, is an experimental inquiry that generates a range of prefixes-\"counter-,\" \"mock-,\" \"anti-,\" \"neo-\"-that mark formal degrees of its epistemological detachment. Romantic ideology has denied the role of the imagination in Enlightenment imitation, imposing on the eighteenth century a dichotomous periodization: duplication versus imagination, the mirror versus the lamp. Structuralist ideology has dichotomized narration and description, form and content, structure and history. Poststructuralist ideology has propounded for the novel a contradictory \"novel tradition\"-realism, modernism, postmodernism, postcolonialism-whose stages both constitute a sequence and collapse it, each stage claiming the innovation of the stage that precedes it. Published by Bucknell University Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press.
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Murmur
\"[The author] invites us into the brilliant mind of Alec Pryor, a character inspired by Alan Turing. Turing, father of artificial intelligence and pioneer of radical new techniques to break the Nazi Enigma cipher during World War II, was later persecuted by the British state for 'gross indecency with another male' and forced to undergo chemical castration. Set during the devastating period before Turing's suicide, Murmur evokes an extraordinary life, the beauty and sorrows of love, and the nature of consciousness\" -- Provided by publisher.
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Typewriter Psyche: Henry James's Mechanical Mind
In this article, I show that the mental model found in Henry James's late works derives from his switch to typewritten dictation. While dictating to the typewriter, James says that words are effectively and unceasingly “pulled out” of him by what he calls the “music” of the machine. The “click” of the Remington actually acts as a “positive spur” to his speech, resulting in a diffuseness that makes keeping any text within the length specified by the publisher virtually impossible for him. Critics have left these material effects of the writing machine largely unexamined. But through careful investigation, it can be demonstrated that the properties of typewritten dictation play a crucial role in forming the dynamic system of drives, compulsions, repetitions, and displacements for which James's late works are famous.
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