Free Indirect Jane Eyre

Habjan, Jernej (2023): Free Indirect Jane Eyre. Brontë’s Peculiar Use of Free Indirect Speech, and German and Slovenian Attempts to Resolve It. In: Reynolds, Matthew und Claro, Andrés (eds.) : Prismatic Jane Eyre : Close-Reading a World Novel Across Languages. Cambridge: Open Book Publishers. pp. 703-721

Abstract

A mix of direct speech’s tone and indirect speech’s tenses and pronouns, free indirect speech has inspired seminal theories of the novel and can also help us read individual novels as they appear in different languages. In the case of Jane Eyre, such a synoptic reading draws our attention to the co-existence of free indirect speech as we know it today and free indirect speech in quotation marks. Tracing the gradual disappearance of such quotation marks in German and Slovenian translations of Jane Eyre, their irreducibility to free indirect speech in today’s sense becomes apparent.

• Item Type: Book Section
• Research Centers: DFG Graduiertenkolleg Funktionen des Literarischen in Prozessen der Globalisierung
• Subjects: 800 Literature > 820 English and Old English literatures
• ISBN: 978-1-80064-842-5 ; 978-1-80064-844-9 ; 978-1-80064-843-2
• Place of Publication: Cambridge
• Language: English