Consciousness in Modernist Fiction

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xi

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2. The Modernist Revolution

   • Violeta Sotirova

   Pages 1-20

3. The Novel of Consciousness

   • Violeta Sotirova

   Pages 21-53

4. D.H. Lawrence’s Dialogic Consciousness

   • Violeta Sotirova

   Pages 54-87

5. James Joyce’s Extratextual Dialogicity

   • Violeta Sotirova

   Pages 88-125

6. Virginia Woolf’s Transparent Selves

   • Violeta Sotirova

   Pages 126-158

7. Modernist Style and Contemporary Philosophy

   • Violeta Sotirova

   Pages 159-196

8. Back Matter

   Pages 197-216

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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.

• Analyse
• David Herbert Lawrence
• fiction
• novel
• British and Irish Literature

“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)

'This volume is a useful resource for those interested in stylistics or in modernist fiction, in particular, Lawrence, Woolf and Joyce. Summing up: recommended for upper-division undergraduates through faculty.' - W. DiPasquale, Gwenedd-Mercy College, USA

• University of Nottingham, UK

  Violeta Sotirova

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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