Kevin Johnson

Research title: The Representation of Consciousness and Cognition in James Joyce’s Ulysses

Research Summary

My area of research focuses on the following topics:

  • Mediacy of narration as a tool for representing character perception
  • Characteristics of conscious experiences aligning with experimental literature in Modernism
  • Features of perceptual experience and immediate cognitions
  • Representations of consciousness in James Joyce’s work
  • Linguistic and grammatical effects of free indirect discourse as a precursor for pre-linguistic consciousness
  • Cognitive penetration of perception at the level of character consciousness
  • Influential narrative techniques in prose fiction: represented perception and the interior monologue