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THE MODERN NOVEL, The new concept of time., Timewas perceived as…
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Timewas perceived as subjective and inner= the distinction between past and present was meaningless in psychological terms.
Absence of a well-structured plot with a chronological sequence of events.
It was not the passing of time that revealed the truth about characters.
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Writers, like James Joyce and Virginia Woolf ,adopted the interior monologue= to represent the unspoken activity of the mind.
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•Its immediacy; this distinguishes it both from the soliloquy and from the dramatic monologue, where conventional syntax is respected.
•Absence of introductory expressions like ‘he thought, he remembered, he said’.
•The presence of two levels of narration: one external to the character’s mind, the other internal.
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•the author is present within the narration= the character’s thoughts are presented both directly and by adding descriptions, appropriate comments and introductory phrases to guide the reader through the narration
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•everything happens in the present in the character’s mind. = ‘Inner time’ preferred to ‘external time’
Interior monologue with two levels of narration.
The extract from James Joyce’s Ulysses(14.9) is characterised by two levels of narration= one external to th echaracter’s mind, the other internal.
Interior monologue with the mind level of narration.In this kind of interior monologue the character’s thoughts flow freely, not interrupted by external events. From the first to the last word no external element interrupts Molly’s monologue in the final chapter of Joyce’s Ulysses (chapter 28)