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Free indirect style and imagining from the inside

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posted on 2023-06-09, 02:53 authored by Kathleen Stock
This chapter considers the phenomenon of free indirect style, and what imaginative response it calls for from the reader who encounters it in a fiction. Two ‘single voice’ theories of free indirect style are discussed: one which argues that we should hear FIS only as implying the voice of a character whose experience is being evoked, and another (that of Goldie) which argues that we should hear FIS only as implying the voice of a narrator describing the experience of a character. This chapter argues instead that the reader is called upon both to imagine from the inside the experience of a character, and that a narrator reports that experience; and that there is nothing incoherent or imaginatively challenging about this. Along the way, the chapter considers the relevance of this view to Goldie’s discussion of autobiographical memory ‘integrating’ ‘external and internal perspectives’ in The Mess Inside.

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  • Published

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  • Accepted version

Publisher

Oxford University Press

Page range

103-120

Pages

288.0

Book title

Art, mind and narrative: themes from the work of Peter Goldie

Place of publication

Oxford

ISBN

9780198769736

Series

Mind association occasional series

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  • Philosophy Publications

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  • No

Peer reviewed?

  • Yes

Editors

Julian Dodd

Legacy Posted Date

2016-09-14

First Compliant Deposit (FCD) Date

2017-02-06

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