Resonance

Datos Bibliográficos

ID4375047
AutoresJoshua Parker (0000-0001-5934-8755, University of Salzburg, autor de correspondencia)
Año2018
Volumen39
Número4
Páginas679-701
Fecha de publicación2018-12-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaPoetics Today (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0333-5372 • E-ISSN: 1527-5507
EditorialDuke University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1215/03335372-7150938
OpenAlexW2939657275
IdiomaEN
Referencias citadas26

While on a conscious level, readers of fiction take for granted that quoted text represents words spoken by characters to other characters in a diegetic story-world, Mikhail Bakhtin’s theories on polyphony and Franz Stanzel’s (and, more recently, Wolf Schmid’s) ideas on stylistic “contamination” of narrators’ speech by characters’ speech have long nuanced our understanding of quoted speech as always being read as purely diegetic. The article suggests how a reader’s stance toward a narrator’s voice can be mirrored by a similarly dialogically positioned pair of diegetic characters, with implications for the reader’s empathy. It examines how “resonance” between paired voices on separate narrative levels occurs when repetition of a deictic across juxtaposed passages or narration and dialogue leads readers to sense a rhetorical continuity despite the grammatical discontinuity

Art · Deixis · Direct speech · Linguistics · Literature · Narrative · Polyphony · Rhetorical question · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition · Narrative Theory and Analysis · Philosophy · Russian Literature and Bakhtin Studies