Kevin Johnson
Research title: Two Types of Consciousness and the ‘Initial Style’ of James Joyce’s Ulysses: Mapping Narrative Techniques onto Philosophy of Consciousness
Research Summary
My area of research focuses on the following topics:
- Mediacy of narration as a tool for representing character perception
- Characteristics of conscious experiences aligning with experimental literature in Modernism
- Features of perceptual experience and immediate cognitions
- Representations of consciousness in James Joyce’s work
- Linguistic and grammatical effects of free indirect discourse as a precursor for pre-linguistic consciousness
- Cognitive penetration of perception at the level of character consciousness
- Influential narrative techniques in prose fiction: represented perception and the interior monologue