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February 27, 2007
Paris: Not a Hilton
“It is because they contain highly individualized characters or extremely detailed pictures of society that many novels lack total artistic integration. In novels of psychological realism (on which we shall focus here) there is a character-creating impulse which has its own inner logic and which tends to its own way, whatever the implied author's formal and thematic intentions may be.”
Whew. Kind of takes your breath away, doesn't it? Let me get this one straight. The essence of the psychological aspect in literature...is that the characters develop their own logic, separate from that of the author's implied formalist and thematic intent.
I can guess, and guess is a good word for it, that this approach focuses on the idea that these are the inner-most thoughts and feelings of the author coming forth in their character. These thoughts and feelings are so deep and hidden that even the author is unaware of them, and, as such, it gives the appearance that the character has a self-thinking thought process.
Why were we assigned this before break?
Posted by KevinMcGinnis at February 27, 2007 9:44 AM