Resampling (Narrative) Stream of Consciousness: Mind Wandering, Inner Speech, and Reading as Reversed Introspection

Bernini, M.; Fernyhough, C.

doi:10.1353/mfs.2022.0045

Resampling (Narrative) Stream of Consciousness: Mind Wandering, Inner Speech, and Reading as Reversed Introspection

Bernini, M.; Fernyhough, C.

Authors

Dr Marco Bernini marco.bernini@durham.ac.uk
Associate Professor

Professor Charles Fernyhough c.p.fernyhough@durham.ac.uk
Professor

Abstract

This article promotes the idea that current cognitive models of mind wandering and inner speech can help us better understanding the phenomenological constituents of what Joyce calls “the mystery of the conscious” as simulated by modernist literary investigations. We will rework a model of perceptual decoupling (or how attention disengages from perception) and peripheral awareness (the interplay of focus and periphery in perception).On the other hand, we argue that modernist introspective explorations can challenge, correct and update cognitive models. We also reflect on reading as a process reversing authorial introspective quests (presenting a model of reading as reversed introspection).

Citation

Bernini, M., & Fernyhough, C. (2022). Resampling (Narrative) Stream of Consciousness: Mind Wandering, Inner Speech, and Reading as Reversed Introspection. MFS: Modern Fiction Studies, 68(4), 639-667. https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.2022.0045

Journal Article Type	Article
Online Publication Date	Jan 19, 2023
Publication Date	2022
Deposit Date	Jan 29, 2021
Publicly Available Date	Mar 3, 2023
Journal	Modern Fiction Studies
Print ISSN	0026-7724
Electronic ISSN	1080-658X
Publisher	Johns Hopkins University Press
Peer Reviewed	Peer Reviewed
Volume	68
Issue	4
Pages	639-667
DOI	https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.2022.0045