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Article: Monitored speech: the "equivalence" relation between direct and indirect speech in Jane Austen and James Joyce.(Jane Austen's Mansfield Park)(Critical essay)
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- January 1, 2007
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INTRODUCTION
In Aspects of the Novel, E.M Forster makes a distinction between round and flat characters that has achieved a certain celebrity. One reason for its celebrity is that it offers a plausible explanation for what might otherwise be inexplicable: the reader's tendency to give the benefit of the doubt to an otherwise very doubtful character, the indolent Lady Bertram in Jane Austen's Mansfield Park. The passage in which Forster suggests Lady Bertram is transformed from a flat into a round character is explicable, however, in terms other than those the English novelist proposes. Indeed, this alternative explanation is preferable because it throws valuable ...
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