D. H. Lawrence and Narrative Viewpoint.

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 characters -- 1. 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 style -- Chapter 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 conclusions -- 8. 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.

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 in the narrative, but linked in a way that creates dialogic resonances between them. The dialogic linking is achieved through the use of devices that have parallel functions in conversational discourse - referring expressions, sentence-initial correctives and repetition. The book uses stylistics to resolve current controversies in narratology and Lawrence criticism. In approaching the study of narrative viewpoint from the angle of discourse, Sotirova arrives at cutting-edge insights into Lawrence's work. This book will be required reading for stylisticians, narratologists, literary linguists and literary studies scholars.

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