For now, this is all going to be pretty much stream of consciousness. It is a post I have been mulling over since we started the current book—based primarily on the use of simile by our narrator in the first of the novels—but it took on a new sense of solidity when I started [...]
Category Archives: The Berlin Stories
Author: Christopher Isherwood. Originally published as two separate books: The Last of Mr. Norris and Goodbye to Berlin; 1935. This is Book 9 in the Reading Project.
“Shall I Compare Thee . . .”: the Importance of Comparison and Figurative Language
28 December 2007 – 9:19 am
“My first impression . . .” and reading the minds of others
9 December 2007 – 5:25 pm
Maybe I am just sensitive to it now, having digested Lisa Zunshine’s book (Why We Read Fiction: Theory of Mind and the Novel) and Alan Palmer’s recent paper (”Social Minds“), but I am very aware of the way our narrator “reads” the manifestations of character and motivations and thoughts in the facial expressions and mannerisms [...]
