Dual Perspective: Free Indirect Discourse and Related Techniques
Dual Perspective: Free Indirect Discourse and Related Techniques
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双重视角:自由间接引语及相关技巧
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10.2307/1769380
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发表时间:
1972
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通讯作者:
Paul Hernadi
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Paul Hernadi
T IS WELL KNOWN that Socrates, in the third book of Plato's Republic, distinguished three modes of literary discourse according to whether the poet, the characters, or poet and characters alternately speak. What has been overlooked too often is this: Mindful of his interlocutor's slow understanding, Socrates illustrated his concepts of authorial, figural, and mixed speech in the manner of a "bad speaker" who "will not take the whole of the subject, but will break a piece off" in order to support his argument (B. Jowett's translation). We will, of course, never know how Socrates conceived of the "whole of the subject." Yet the last twenty-three hundred years of literary history have persuasively supplemented his example for mixed speech, the Homeric type of direct quotation, with new techniques of integrating diegesis and miniesis, the authorial presentation and the impersonating representation of action.1