Resonance

Bibliographic Data

ID4375047
AuthorsJoshua Parker (0000-0001-5934-8755, University of Salzburg, corresponding author)
Year2018
Volume39
Issue4
Pages679-701
Publication date2018-12-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenuePoetics Today (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0333-5372 • E-ISSN: 1527-5507
PublisherDuke University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1215/03335372-7150938
OpenAlexW2939657275
LanguageEN
References cited26

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