The best of them, set around the Étoile, is Rohmer's — a tense, witty exploration of the inner life of a fussy and frightened man.
Ch'oe Yun is a Korean author known for her breathtaking versatility, subversion of authority, and bold exploration of the inner life.
For a while, the fabulous Chummy (played by Miranda Hart, whose series, "Miranda," is also worth seeking out) was the standout; more recently, there has been smart exploration of the inner life of the brittle flirt Trixie (Helen George), now newly sober.
Auster's newest work of highly creative autobiography, narrated in the second person, is a multi-part exploration of his inner life as a youth, from his childhood in the nineteen-fifties to his early adulthood in the sixties.
Finnish-born, but long a paragon of the Parisian institutional avant-garde, Saariaho writes music that, like that of many of her colleagues, is a rigorously scientific exploration of the inner life of sound.
Beatty's movies have long been in conversation with his public image, from the way "Bonnie and Clyde and Dick Tracycy" subverted his status as a handsome leading man, to the explorations of the inner life of a ladies man in "Shampoo" and "Heaven Can Wait," the know-it-all who accomplishes nothing in "McCabe & Mrs. Miller" to the political commitment of "Reds" and "Bulworth".
An exploration of Hofstadter's inner life provides an indispensable tool for evaluating his scholarship and politics within the context of his sense of identity.
Arctic Summer draws on Forster's writings to conduct a bold, imaginative exploration of the novelist's inner life.
Or rather, can exploration of the imagination — the inner life of the mind — itself become a fully developed sort of experience?
(Without Shakespeare's help, being a king is clearly no protection against being a boring conversationalist). More seriously, a novel that features England's greatest medieval poet, by a writer who knows his work, is ripe for some exploration of the man's inner life.
And to a modern reader, the tragedy's poignant exploration of the fallen monarch's inner life seems very far from a piece of propaganda designed to incite the crowd to rebellion.
