D. H. Lawrence and Narrative Viewpoint

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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.<br><br>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.<br><br>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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