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Violeta Sotirova
Associate Professor in Stylistics, Faculty of Arts
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Biography
My research focuses on the representation of narrative consciousness. I have published a book on D.H. Lawrence and Narrative Viewpoint and a book on Consciousness in Modernist Fiction, as well as articles and book chapters on narrative viewpoint and the linguistic representation of consciousness. I edited the Bloomsbury Companion to Stylistics and I am Assistant Editor of the international journal of the Poetics and Linguistics Association - Language and Literature. I am also interested in the historical development of narrative style and in the process of authorial revisions as evidence of authorial intention.
Expertise Summary
BA (Sofia, Uppsala, Hull), MPhil (Cantab), PhD (Manchester) Areas of expertise - stylistics, narrative theory, discourse analysis, critical theory, history of the novel.
Teaching Summary
At UG level I teach Literary Stylistics; at MA level I teach Narratology and Consciousness in Fiction. I also teach Literary Linguistics and Narratology on the Distance Learning MA Programmes.
Research Summary
My research focuses on the presentation of narrative consciousness. I have published a book on D.H. Lawrence's stylistic techniques which redefines the study of point of view by showing that… read more
Current Research
My research focuses on the presentation of narrative consciousness. I have published a book on D.H. Lawrence's stylistic techniques which redefines the study of point of view by showing that narrative consciousness is interactive. My second book on consciousness in Modernist Fiction explores the dialogic presentation of consciousness in D.H. Lawrence, Virginia Woolf and James Joyce, arguing that these three major Modernist authors respond stylistically to the crisis of knowledge in the early twentieth century. I have published articles and book chapters on the linguistic mechanics of narrative viewpoint and on the development of Lawrence's and Woolf's style. I edited The Bloomsbury Companion to Stylistics and I co-edited Linguistics and Literary History for the John Benjamins series Linguistic Approaches to Literature. I am Assistant editor of the international journal of the Poetics and Linguistics Association - Language and Literature, and I am a member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Literary Semantics. I am also interested in the historical development of literary style, free indirect style and in the process of authorial revisions as evidence of authorial intention. My most recent publication - an article in the Journal of Literary Semantics - explores the positioning of the narrator in Modernist fiction. I am currently working on a monograph on The Language of Modernism.
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. I have also studied empirically real readers' responses to narrative point of view.
Future Research
My future research plans include the investigation of the historical development of free indirect style, a technique used for the presentation of narrative consciousness and the assessment of authorial revisions in D.H. Lawrence and Virginia Woolf.