Narrative Techniques: Voices and Thoughts

Posted by on Feb 16, 2025 in Spanish Language and its Literature | 0 comments

NARRATIVE TECHNIQUES. METHODS OF PRESENTATION OF THE VOICES AND THOUGHTS OF THE CHARACTER. THE POLYPHONY: It gives variety to the text, as the voice of the narrator alternates intermittently with the voices of the characters. then the text is said to become polyphonic, breaking the possible monotony of the narrator’s sole voice. the text is now richer with new voices that can offer stylistic variety in lexis, syntax, phonology dialect and register.

In order to present their voices, their actual speech,

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Interior Monologue and Stream of Consciousness in Literature

Posted by on Jan 28, 2025 in Spanish Language and its Literature | 0 comments

Stream of Consciousness Techniques

The Interior Monologue: Free Direct Discourse

Free direct discourse is the most experimental technique. There is no narrative voice in order to imitate how our mind works. The intention is to give the reader the impression that they are inside the character’s mind; there is no intervention of the narrator. The narrator does not appear; there is no mediation. The first person to use the interior monologue was a French novelist, and British modernist writers adopted

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