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Consciousness in Modernist Fiction - A Stylistic Study (Hardcover)
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Consciousness in Modernist Fiction - A Stylistic Study (Hardcover)
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This book explores stylistic techniques that interweave different
viewpoints in Modernist fiction. Consciousness was a central
concern of the Modernist novel and there has been a strong critical
interest in the techniques of its presentation. Critics are aware
of the Modernist practice of refracting narratives through the
consciousness of numerous characters, but while narratologists as
well as stylisticians have studied the linguistic indices of
narrative viewpoint, the linguistic mechanics of shifts across
different characters' minds or across character's and narrator's
voices have remained unexplored. This book offers the first
stylistic analysis of the linguistic evidence and shows that the
implications of such practices far exceed the attempt to simply
juxtapose different characters' viewpoints and thereby interpret
the narrative world through different perspectives; rather than
simply co-existing in the tissue of the narrative, the viewpoints
of D.H. Lawrence's and Virginia Woolf's characters are
interconnected in dialogue that occurs at the interstices of
viewpoint shifts. This is significant because it impacts on the
very discourse of the novel itself as a genre, i.e. its
dialogicity. James Joyce's rendering of consciousness intersects
the voices of character and narrator, and this in turn implicates
the reader in the construction of meaning. The identification of
dialogic techniques in the presentation of consciousness serves to
question a long accepted belief that the novel of consciousness is
a novel of fragmentation and occlusion. Instead, the dialogic
Modernism identified here suggests a more deliberate concern on the
part of writers to engage directly with the philosophical questions
of self and other that were being explored, in a very different
format, by Heidegger, Bergson and Buber.
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