@article{kzm 72023, author = {Ewoud Goethals}, title = {'Re-minding Meneer Visser': Van een intemalistische naar een extemalistische benadering van fictioneel bewustzijn in Meneer Visser's hellevaart (1936) van Simon Vestdijk}, volume = {71}, year = {2017}, url = {https://openjournals.ugent.be/kzm/article/id/72023/}, issue = {0}, doi = {10.21825/kzm.v71i0.17547}, abstract = {<p>This article focuses on fictional minds in the modernist novel Meneer Visser's Hellevaart<br>(1936) by Simon Vestdijk, more specifically on the mind of its protagonist: Meneer<br>Visser. The secondary literature about this novel so far tends to treat this character psychologically.<br>Critics study Visser's traumatic youth and his inner psychological depths.<br>Visser's mind is thereby seen as a passive monologue intérieur, isolated from the physical<br>and social environment of the storyworld. With Monika Fludemik's concept of typification,<br>l argue that the term monologue intérieur is deceptive. Using the cognitive narratology<br>of David Herman and Alan Palmer, I demonstrate that Visser's mind is not passive<br>and isolated, but active and in constant interaction with his physical and social<br>environment. Finally, I relate the patterns highlighted by the narratological analysis to an<br>interpretation of the novel. The dynamic of Visser's fictional mind is shown to be thematically<br>motivated.</p>}, month = {1}, pages = {117-129}, issn = {2736-2175}, publisher={Koninklijke Zuid-Nederlandse Maatschappij voor Taal- en Letterkunde en Geschiedenis}, journal = {Handelingen - Koninklijke Zuid-Nederlandse maatschappij voor taal- en letterkunde en geschiedenis} }