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Translation of Autobiography: Narrating self, translating the other
Susan XU Yun
[Benjamins Translation Library 136] 2017
► pp. 99–133

Chapter 4
Narrating and experiencing self

Mimesis within diegesis

Article outline
  • 4.1Introduction
  • 4.2Constituting consciousness
  • 4.3Deixis, modality and speech/thought presentation
    • 4.3.1Deixis and reader’s consciousness
    • 4.3.2Modality and the speaker’s consciousness
    • 4.3.3Speech and thought presentation: The narrator’s/character’s consciousness
  • 4.4Character’s consciousness: The mimesis
    • 4.4.1DS
    • 4.4.2FIS
    • 4.4.3DT and FIT
  • 4.5Narrator’s consciousness: The diegesis
    • 4.5.1NRSA and NRTA
    • 4.5.2IS and IT
    • 4.5.3Paradoxical FDT
  • 4.6Interplay between character and narrator
    • 4.6.1Empathy
    • 4.6.2Irony
  • 4.7Conclusion
  • Notes