Self-consciousness, embodiment, and the narrativizing self

pp. 15-45

in: Brook Miller, Self-consciousness in modern British fiction, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 2013

Abstract

Fueled by the ascendancy of psychology and psychoanalysis, the modernist period featured frequent, highly visible discussions of consciousness. The appearance of free indirect discourse and Bakhtinian dialogism in experimental novels testifies to a well-known displacement of realist mimesis by an inward turn into consciousness.