Cohn, Dorrit

(Dorrit Claire Cohn; US Germanist and narratologist, member of the Advisory Board of Narrative)

Harvard University

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Biography

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Bibliography

Cohn, Dorrit. "Narrated Monologue: Definition of a Fictional Style". Comparative Literature 18.2 (1966): 97-112.

_____. The Sleepwalkers: Elucidations of Hermann Broch's Trilogy. The Hague: Mouton, 1966.

_____. "Trends in Literary Criticism: Some Structuralist Approaches to Kafka." German Quarterly 51.2 (March 1978).

_____. Transparent Minds: Narrative Modes for Presenting Consciousness in Fiction. Princeton (NJ): Princeton UP, 1978.

_____. Transparent Minds. In Google Books: http://books.google.es/books?id=dmIQoPdb1SgC&printsec=frontcover&dq=Transparent+Minds&ei=Y27qS87qHoquygTIxPzuBw&cd=1#v=onepage&q&f=false 2010

_____. La Transparence intérieure. Trans. Alain Bony. Paris: Seuil, 1981.

_____. From Transparent Minds. In Theory of the Novel: A Historical Approach. Ed. Michael McKeon. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 2000. 493-514. (Narrated Monologue).

_____. "The Encirclement of Narrative: On Franz Stanzel's Theorie des Erzählens." Poetics Today 2.2 (1981): 157-82.

_____. "The Second Author of 'Der Tod in Venedig'." In Probleme der Moderne: Studien zur deutschen Literatur von Nietzsche bis Brecht. Festschrift für Walter Sokel. Ed. Benjamin Bennett, Anton Kaes and William J. Lillyman. Tübingen: Niemeyer, 1983. 223-45.

_____. "Fictional versus Historical lives: Borderlines and Borderline Cases." The Journal of Narrative Technique 19.1 (1989): 3-24.

_____. "Signposts of Fictionality: A Narratological Perspective." Poetics Today 11.4 (Winter 1990): 775-804.

_____. "Freud's Case Histories and the Question of Fictionality." In Telling Facts. Ed. Joseph H. Smith. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 1992. 21-47.

_____ "'I Doze and I Wake': The Deviance of Simultaneous Narration." In Tales and 'their telling difference': Zur Theorie und Geschichte der Narrativik. Festschrift zum 70. Geburtstag von Franz K. Stanzel. Ed. Herbert Foltinek, Wolfgang Riehle and Waldemar Zacharasiewicz. Heidelberg: Winter, 1993. 9-23.

_____. "Optics and Power in the Novel." New Literary History 26.1 (1995): 3-20.

_____. "Reply to John Bender and Mark Seltzer." New Literary History 26.1 (1995): 35-7.

_____. The Distinction of Fiction. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 1999.

_____. Le Propre de la fiction. (Poétique). Paris: Seuil, 2001.

_____. "Discordant Narration." Style 34.2 (Summer 2000): 307-16. Eletronic ed. in Literature Online. http://lion.chadwyck.co.uk 9/7/04

_____. Appendix to Unterwegs—Erzähltheorie für Leser: Ausgewählte Schriften. By Franz K. Stanzel. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2002.

_____. "Le renouveau de la narratologie." Interview. Vox Poetica http://www.vox-poetica.org/entretiens/cohn.htm 2004-03-02

_____. "Métalepse et mise en abyme." In Métalepses: Entorses au pacte de la représentation. Ed. John Pier and Jean-Marie Schaeffer. Paris: Éditions de l'École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, 2005. 121-30.

Cohn, Dorrit. "Métalepse et mise en abyme." In Métalepses: Entorses au pacte de la représentation. Ed. John Pier and Jean-Marie Schaeffer. Paris: Éditions de l'École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, 2005. 121-30.

Cohn, Dorrit, and Gérard Genette. "Nouveaux nouveaux discours du récit." Trans. (in part) A. Bony. Poétique 61 (1985): 101-9.

_____. "A Narratological Exchange." Trans. (in part) D. Cohn. In Neverending Stories. Ed. A. Fehn et al. Princeton: Princeton UP, 1992. 258-66.

Criticism

García Landa, José Ángel. "Transparent Minds." In García Landa, Vanity Fea 8 May 2007. Review of Dorrit Cohn's book. http://garciala.blogia.com/2007/050801-transparent-minds.php 2007-05-31

McHale, Brian. "Islands in the Stream of Consciousness: Dorrit Cohn's Transparent Minds." Poetics Today 2.2 (1981): 183-91.