Practice question · Match the pairs
Match each writer to the technique most associated with them in this lesson.
- Proust
- Joyce
- Woolf
- All three
- Consciousness passing between characters
- Homeric structural parallel
- Deliberate mismatch of story and discourse time
- Involuntary memory
Hints
- Each writer has one signature device, and one device is shared.
- The shared device is the mismatch of the two clocks.
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- Proust → Involuntary memory
- Joyce → Homeric structural parallel
- Woolf → Consciousness passing between characters
- All three → Deliberate mismatch of story and discourse time
Why
The shared row is the point of the lesson. The individual techniques are different solutions to one problem, how to make a novel register experience rather than events, and all three solutions begin by breaking the proportion between the time described and the time taken to describe it.
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