Narrative Labor in Wilkie Collins's<i>The Moonstone</i>

Gooch, Joshua

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“…In the same vein, Robinson views the unknown foreign element (the inhabitants and footprints he comes across on the island) as the Devil, echoing Betteredge's calling the Indian jewel the Devil. Robinson's materiality is also echoed several other references to finance and banking, which, as Gooch (2010) underlines, are part of the novel's engagement with imperialism: "The intersection of service and finance in the novel implicates not only the British Empire but also the financial system upon which the imperial project depended" (p. 120). Said (1994) opines that "Robinson Crusoe is virtually unthinkable without the colonizing mission" (p. 64).…”

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Rhetorical Functions of Multiple Narrators and Focalization Shifts in Wilkie Collins’s The Moonstone

Toprak Sakız

2024

Cankaya University Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences

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Exploring the rhetorical functions of the multiple-narrator structure and constantly changing focalization in Wilkie Collins’s epistolary novel The Moonstone is the focus of this study. Key events with regard to the loss of the Indian diamond are narrated in a repetitive pattern, each time with a shift in perspective depending on who remains in the focal position. Genettian concepts of alternating internal/external focalization and multifarious functionalities of narrator(s) are embodied in The Moonstone, culminating in a prevailing sense of mystery, ambiguity as well as an equivocal state of reality as generic conventions, yet on an underlying level, they reflect the ambivalent engagement with imperialism in the novel. The witness-narrator, Gabriel Betteredge, is constantly involved in a number of extranarrative roles alongside his narrating function: the directing function, communication function, testimonial function and ideological function that help to establish a relationship with the implied reader. The multiple-narrator structure and the use of focalization shifts as well as various narrative and extranarrative functions as sources of power are the main features in the novel that expose its uncertainty in response to the idea of empire.

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Rhetorical Functions of Multiple Narrators and Focalization Shifts in Wilkie Collins’s The Moonstone

Toprak Sakız

2024

Cankaya University Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences

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“…(Collins 36)Betteredge blames the “foreign varnish” of Franklin's education for his privileging of the objective facts over the subjective inferences. As Joshua Gooch notes, “Franklin's plurality reflects the clichés of Western Europe's cultural pillars: German philosophy, French wit, and Italian indecision” (Gooch 131). Franklin and Betteredge both go wrong in trying to separate the processes.…”

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Associationist Philosophy, Cognitive Literary Studies, and Objective–Subjective Habits of Mind

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2015

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This article discusses the lasting impact of associationist philosophy on studies of Romantic and Victorian literature. Associationism, which involves belief that “mental and moral phenomena may be accounted for by association of ideas” (OED), combines habits of thinking with habits of feeling. The suggestion that detectable patterns of thought impact personal preferences and social decisions has special significance in scholarship about sympathy and distance. The explosion of scholarship within cognitive theory and the arts, spearheaded by Nicholas Dames, Sean O'Toole, Anne Stiles, Laura Otis, Lisa Zunshine, and many others, has offered powerful insights into attention, recollection, and the understanding of the self through literature. Analyses of narrative form and affect by scholars such as Amanda Anderson, Sarah Winter, Catherine Robson, and Suzanne Keen underscore how associations dictate and shape sympathetic interactions. This article argues for productive overlap between these strains of scholarship. Together, the works suggest that insights into habits of mind can and should be applied to the social realm.

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Narrative Labor in Wilkie Collins'sThe Moonstone

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Rhetorical Functions of Multiple Narrators and Focalization Shifts in Wilkie Collins’s The Moonstone

Rhetorical Functions of Multiple Narrators and Focalization Shifts in Wilkie Collins’s The Moonstone

Associationist Philosophy, Cognitive Literary Studies, and Objective–Subjective Habits of Mind

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