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In The Lake, the story of a spiritual crisis in the life of a priest in rural Ireland at the turn of the twentieth century, Moore set out to focus his narrative on events internal to the priest’s experiences. Critics have heralded it as an early or even the first stream of consciousness novel in English, and have identified it as an influence on younger writers, including James Joyce. This chapter suggests pragmatics can offer useful analytic tools for describing and explaining Moore’s innovative technique. It also offers a comparison between the fist and the rewritten versions of the text, considering how the effect of this technique is heightened and arguably improved in the process of rewriting.
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Chapman, S. (2020). The Lake (1905 and 1921). In: The Pragmatics of Revision. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-41268-5_8
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