G484 - Free Indirect Discourse: Revisiting Point of View

Sessions	Dates	Start	Finish
1	24 Aug 2009	05:30 PM	07:30 PM

Literature teachers and readers who are interested in exploring narrative perspective or point of view. It is specially aimed at people who are interested in intellectual and literary development.

- Discuss the concept of "point of view" and reflect upon the importance of narrative perspective in interpreting texts.
- Explore Free Indirect Discourse. Recognize it in literary texts and discuss its functions.

The following topics will be dealt with in this short seminar: Definitions of "point of view", the concept of focalization, direct and indirect discourse, free direct and free indirect discourse. Linguistic features of free indirect discourse, thematic functions of FID. Free indirect discourse and bivocality, distance, empathy and irony.

- Prince, G. (2003) Dictionary of Narratology. Revised Edition. Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press.
- Bal, M. (1994) Narratology Introduction to the Theory of Narrative. Second Edition. Toronto, Buffalo, London: University of Toronto Press.
- Banfield, A. (1981) "Reflective and Non-Reflective Consciousness in the Language of Fiction" Poetics Today, Vol.2: No.2, pp. 61-76.
- Banfield, A. (1981) "Where Epistemology, Style and Grammar Meet Literary History: The Development of Represented Speech and Thought". New Literary History, Vol9, No. 3. pp. 415-454.
- Fludernik, M. (1995) "The Linguistic Illusion of Alterity: The Free Indirect as Paradigm of Discourse Representation" Diacritics, Vol. 25. No 4; pp89-115.
- Dentith, S. (1994) Bakhtinian Thought: An Introductory Reader.
- Florence, KY, USA: Routledge.
- Bakhtin, M. (1981) The Dialogic Imagination. Ed. Michael Holquist. Trans. Caryl Emerson and Michael Holquist. Austin: University of Texas Press.
- Genette, G. (1980) Narrative Discourse. Translated by Jane Lewin.
Leech and Short. (1983) Style in Fiction: A Linguistic Introduction to English Fictional Prose. UK: Longman Group Limited.
- Nielsen, H. (2004) "The Impersonal Voice in First-Person Narrative Discourse" Narrative, Vol. 12 No. 2.
- Oltean, S. (1993) A Survey of the Pragmatic and Referential Functions of Free Indirect Discourse. Poetics Today, Vol.14 No.4. pp 691-714.
- Oltean, S. ( 2003) "On the Bivocal Nature of Free Indirect Discourse" JLS 32 pp.167-1776.
- Rimmon-Kenan, Shlomith (1983) Narrative Fiction: Contemporary Poetics. Florence, KY, USA: Routledge.
- Stanzel, F. (1981) "Teller-Characters and Reflector Characters in Narrative Theory" Poetics Today, Vol. 2 No. 2, pp. 5-15.
- Toolan, M. (2001) Narrative: A Critical Linguistic Introduction (second edition), London: Routledge.
- Humphrey, R. (1954) Stream of Consciousness in the Modern Novel. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press.
- Vandelanotte, L. (2004) "Deixis and Grounding in Speech and Thought Representation" Journal of Pragmatics 36, pp 489-522.
(All reading materials will be provided during the course).

The coordinator will present the topics with examples. At the end of the session students will work on excerpts from fictional texts such as Katherine Ann Porter's "Rope" and the "Jilting of Granny Weatherall", Hemingway's The Killers, Kate Chopin's The Awakening, among others. Participants will recognize different kinds of speech and thought presentations and discuss the effects of Free Indirect Discourse in different contexts.