D. H. Lawrence and narrative viewpoint / Violeta Sotirova.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sotirova, Violeta, author.

Series:

Advances in stylistics.

Advances in Stylistics

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Lawrence, D. H. (David Herbert), 1885-1930--Literary style.

Lawrence, D. H.

Lawrence, D. H. (David Herbert), 1885-1930--Criticism and interpretation.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (238 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York, New York : Continuum, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book is a stylistic study of D. H. Lawrence''s presentation of narrative viewpoint. The focus is mainly on Lawrence''s third novel, Sons and Lovers, occupying a crucial position in his oeuvre and judged by critics to be his first mature piece. While sharing many features typical of nineteenth-century novels, it marks the emergence of a new technique of writing consciousness that functioned as a precursor to the modernist practice of dialogic shifts across viewpoints. Through a detailed linguistic analysis, Sotirova shows that different characters'' viewpoints are not simply juxtaposed

Contents:

Cover; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Chapter One: Narrative viewpoint: the theoretical debate; 1. Bakhtinian dialogicity; 2. Early accounts of free indirect style; 3. The dual voice hypothesis; 4. The single voice alternative; 5. Dual voice - a fiction of language; 6. The problem of origin; 7. The French theory of enunciation; 8. Dual voice: trash, crash, . . . or dialogue?; 9. Where next?; Chapter Two: D. H. Lawrence and the novel; 1. Introduction; 2. Reading Lawrence through a Bakhtinian lens; 3. The novel for Lawrence and Bakhtin; 4. Choosing a text

Chapter Three: Naming characters1. Narratologists on reference to characters; 2. Calling the baby 'it'; 3. Linguistic findings on the semantic value of pronouns; 4. Naming and dialogue; Chapter Four: Connecting characters' viewpoints; 1. Connectives: a factor complicating perspective; 2. Connectives in studies of free indirect style; 3. Connectives: a problem in Lawrence; 4. An attempt to capture the functions of AND in a Lawrence short story; 5. The evidence from spoken discourse; 6. A conversational model for free indirect style; 7. Revisions of connectives: the evidence from manuscripts

8. Connectives and the theories of free indirect styleChapter Five: Binding viewpoints through repetition; 1. Introduction; 2. Earlier treatments of repetition; 3. Lawrence criticism; 4. A text full of repetition; 5. Repetition through revision; 6. The findings of discourse analysis; 7. Repetition and the theory of free indirect style; Chapter Six: Situating dialogicity in the novel; 1. Charting stylistic change; 2. The position of Sons and Lovers in Lawrence's oeuvre; 3. The role of conjunction; 4. The role of repetition; 5. Thought presentation in The Trespasser; 6. The voice of the author

7. Stylistic conclusions8. From style to metaphysic; Conclusion; Appendix; Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781441123626

1441123628

OCLC:

893331098