Missed the orig. inquiry, but saw ED's response which
included it.
Agree with his choices and would speculate the practice of no
" " marks comes from the attempts to get inside characters,
based on new notions of the subjective that arise in the
19th-early 20th century. These Techniques feature what's
called interior monologue or (more generally) stream of
consciousness and those using it would, as Joyce did, see the
marks as an affectation, since everything is "registered"
inside us anyway, where dialogue mixes with thoughts,
memories, etc. It's close to another, older technique, called
free indirect discourse I think, where the phrasing and
syntax are a character's even though being rendered in the
sentences of someone else's thought or voice, without
quotation marks.
So you might run into it in any of a number of modern novels
which feature pschological or "stream" techniques.
More than you wanted, I expect.
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