Violeta Sotirova

Contact

• workRoom A38 Trent Building
  University Park
  Nottingham
  NG7 2RD
  UK
• work0115 846 8239
• fax0115 951 5924
• violeta.sotirova@nottingham.ac.uk

Expertise Summary

BA (Sofia, Uppsala, Hull), MPhil (Cambridge), PhD (Manchester) Areas of expertise - stylistics, narrative theory, discourse analysis, critical theory, history of the novel.

Research Summary

I am currently working on a book on the narrative presentation of consciousness in modernist fiction. The book focuses on the linguistic mechanics of viewpoint presentation and in particular, on the… read more

Recent Publications

• SOTIROVA, V., 2011. D.H. Lawrence and Narrative Viewpoint Continuum.
• SOTIROVA, V., 2010. The Roots of a Literary Style: Joyce's Presentation of Consciousness in Ulysses Language and Literature. 19(2), 131-149
• SOTIROVA, V., 2009. A comparative analysis of indices of narrative point of view in Bulgarian and English. In: HÜHN, P., SCHMID, W. and SCHÖNERT, J., eds., Point of View, Perspective and Focalisation: Modeling Mediation in Narrative Walter de Gruyter. 163-182
• SOTIROVA, V., 2007. Historical Transformations of Free Indirect Style. In: HOOVER, D. and LATTIG, S., eds., Stylistics: Prospect and Retrospect 3. Rodopi. 129-142

• View all publications

Current Research

I am currently working on a book on the narrative presentation of consciousness in modernist fiction. The book focuses on the linguistic mechanics of viewpoint presentation and in particular, on the discourse links across different characters' viewpoints. Using a discourse approach to narrative viewpoint, I explore how viewpoints are handled simultaneously, how shifts in viewpoint are effected and the implications of interlocking narrative viewpoints.

Past Research

My research so far has focused on the presentation of narrative viewpoint in fiction. In particular, I have worked on the stylistic practice of viewpoint presentation in D.H. Lawrence and Virginia Woolf. I approach the analysis of narrative perspective in a discourse framework which allows me to draw parallels between shifts in perspective and some everyday conversational practices. Some of my analyses are informed by a study of real readers' responses to narrative point of view.

Future Research

My future research plans are to investigate the historical development of free indirect style, a technique used for the presentation of narrative viewpoint. After completing my study of modernist techniques for the presentation of consciousness, I intend to widen the scope of my research to cover other periods in the development of the novel.

• SOTIROVA, V., 2011. D.H. Lawrence and Narrative Viewpoint Continuum.
• SOTIROVA, V., 2010. The Roots of a Literary Style: Joyce's Presentation of Consciousness in Ulysses Language and Literature. 19(2), 131-149
• SOTIROVA, V., 2009. A comparative analysis of indices of narrative point of view in Bulgarian and English. In: HÜHN, P., SCHMID, W. and SCHÖNERT, J., eds., Point of View, Perspective and Focalisation: Modeling Mediation in Narrative Walter de Gruyter. 163-182
• SOTIROVA, V., 2007. Historical Transformations of Free Indirect Style. In: HOOVER, D. and LATTIG, S., eds., Stylistics: Prospect and Retrospect 3. Rodopi. 129-142
• SOTIROVA, V., 2007. Woolf's Experiments with Consciousness in Fiction. In: LAMBROU, M. and STOCKWELL, P., eds., Contemporary Stylistics Continuum. 7-18
• SOTIROVA, V., 2007. Biblical Language and Patterns of Orality in D.H. Lawrence Etudes Lawrenciennes: The Bible Revisited. 35, 157-176
• SOTIROVA, V., 2007. Shifts in Point of View: From Paul Morel to Sons and Lovers Etudes Lawrenciennes. 37, 143-165
• SOTIROVA, V., 2006. Reader responses to narrative point of view Poetics. 34(2), 108-133
• SOTIROVA, V., 2006. Charting stylistic change: D. H. Lawrence's handling of point of view English Studies. 87(4), 466-489
• SOTIROVA, V., 2005. Repetition in Free Indirect Style: a dialogue of minds? Style. 39(2), 123-136
• SOTIROVA, V., 2004. Connectives in free indirect style: continuity or shift? Language and Literature. 13(3), 216-234
• SOTIROVA, V., 2002. In: Textual Secrets: The Message of the Medium. Proceedings of the 21st PALA Conference.