Consciousness in Modernist Fiction

This stylistic study of consciousness in the Modernist novel explores shifts across different viewpoints and the techniques through which they are dialogically interconnected. The dialogic resonances in the presentation of character consciousness are analysed using linguistic evidence and evidence drawn from everyday conversational practices.

Seasoned scholars of both modernism and linguistics (as well as students of each) will find food for thought in the clear explanations of the linguistic complexities at work in modernist literary technique found in Consciousness in Modernist Fiction. Consciousness in Modernist Fiction makes a solid contribution to critical understanding of the underexplored field of modernist representations of consciousness. (Rebecca Nicholson-Weir, Modern Fiction Studies, Vol. 62 (1), 2016)

Autorentext
VIOLETA SOTIROVA is a Lecturer in Stylistics at the University of Nottingham, UK. She is the author of D.H. Lawrence and Narrative Viewpoint (2010). Her work on the stylistic indices of consciousness presentation in Modernist narratives includes publications in the following journals: Style, Language and Literature, English Studies, Études Lawrenciennes. She has also written chapters for Contemporary Stylistics and Point of View, Perspective and Focalisation.

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Acknowledgements Introduction The Modernist Revolution The Novel of Consciousness D.H. Lawrence's Dialogic Consciousness James Joyce's Extratextual Dialogicity Virginia Woolf's Transparent Selves Modernist Style and Contemporary Philosophy Bibliography Index