Narrative Personae and Desire in Modernist Fiction

Examining modernist fiction in the context of a longer tradition of narrative impersonality, Narrative Personae and Desire in Modernist Fiction explores how narrative language renders subjective states of interiority and desire. Inspired by linguistic analyses of the “speakerless sentences” of narrative language and their unoccupied centers of perception, Kevin Ohi argues that modernist texts are populated by quasi-persons: narrative “voices” that are impersonal while trailing effects of pe...