How Free Indirect Discourse and the Dual Voice Shows Evolution of Character in Emma by Jane Austen.
Idea topic: In “Emma” Austen experiments with the third-person, dual voice, and free indirect discourse to show close perspective, to explore a complex problem of understanding other characters, technique’s that also provide the reader an opportunity to reexamine his or her own habits of thought, as well other characters. There’s this “double world” of narrator and characters perspectives simultaneously (Emma). In this research paper I want you to talk about Jane Austen techniques and use examples from the book backed up by research articles given to demonstrate how the techniques show the evolution of character (Emma) by the end of the book.
Of course you can talk about other characters in relation…
(This is the argument that I want to use in my research paper, but you can modify it a bit if I am not being clear).
Paper format MLA
Use there sources:
Austen, Jane. “Emma”
Boyd, Brian. “Does Austen Need Narrators? Does Anyone?” New Literary History, vol. 48, no. 2, 2017, pp. 285–308.
Nelles, William. “Omniscience for Atheists: Or, Jane Austen’s Infallible Narrator.” Narrative, vol. 14, no. 2, 2006, pp. 118–131.
Gunn, Daniel P. “Free Indirect Discourse and Narrative Authority in Emma.(Critical Essay).” Narrative, vol. 12, no. 1, 2004, pp. 35–54.
Oberman, Rachel Provenzano. “Fused Voices: Narrated Monologue in Jane Austen’s Emma.” Nineteenth-Century Literature, vol. 64, no. 1, 2009, pp. 1–15.
