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Dr VIOLETA SOTIROVA's Outputs (10)

Who’s afraid of Virginia Woolf? Readers’ responses to experimental techniques of speech, thought and consciousness presentation in Woolf’s To the Lighthouse and Mrs Dalloway (2020)
Journal Article
Grisot, G., Conklin, K., & Sotirova, V. (2020). Who’s afraid of Virginia Woolf? Readers’ responses to experimental techniques of speech, thought and consciousness presentation in Woolf’s To the Lighthouse and Mrs Dalloway. Language and Literature, 29(2), 103-123. https://doi.org/10.1177/0963947020924202

Woolf’s work has been the object of several studies concerned with her experimental use of techniques of speech, thought and consciousness presentation. These investigated the way in which different perspectives coexist and alternate in her writing,... Read More about Who’s afraid of Virginia Woolf? Readers’ responses to experimental techniques of speech, thought and consciousness presentation in Woolf’s To the Lighthouse and Mrs Dalloway.

Dismantling Narrative Modes: Authorial Revisions in the Opening of Mrs Dalloway (2016)
Book Chapter
Sotirova, V. (2016). Dismantling Narrative Modes: Authorial Revisions in the Opening of Mrs Dalloway. In A. Auer, V. González-Díaz, J. Hodson, & V. Sotirova (Eds.), Linguistics and Literary History: In Honour of Sylvia Adamson (171-194). John Benjamins Publishing Company. https://doi.org/10.1075/lal.25.10sot

This study examines Virginia Woolf ’s authorial revisions of the opening of Mrs Dalloway and their implications for narrative theory. I compare passages from the short story ‘Mrs Dalloway in Bond Street’ and the early drafts of ‘The Hours’ with the p... Read More about Dismantling Narrative Modes: Authorial Revisions in the Opening of Mrs Dalloway.

Empirical Stylistics as a Learning and Research Tool in the Study of Narrative Viewpoint (2016)
Book Chapter
SOTIROVA, V. (2016). Empirical Stylistics as a Learning and Research Tool in the Study of Narrative Viewpoint. In M. Burke, O. Fialho, & S. Zyngier (Eds.), Scientific Approaches to Literature in Learning Environments (227-252). John Benjamins Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1075/lal.24.12sot

This chapter reports a study on students’ responses to a passage by Virginia Woolf which displays frequent shifts in viewpoint and a variety of speech and thought presentation modes. The students were asked to attribute the viewpoint in the passage a... Read More about Empirical Stylistics as a Learning and Research Tool in the Study of Narrative Viewpoint.

Linguistics and Literary History: In Honour of Sylvia Adamson (2016)
Book
Sotirova, V., González-Díaz, V., Hodson, J., & Auer, A. (Eds.). (2016). Linguistics and Literary History: In Honour of Sylvia Adamson. John Benjamins Publishing

Linguistics and Literary History systematically explores the advantages of an inter-disciplinary approach within the broad area of English studies. It brings together stylistics, literary theory and diachronic linguistics in order to explore their in... Read More about Linguistics and Literary History: In Honour of Sylvia Adamson.

Production and Intentionality (2014)
Book Chapter
Sotirova, V. (2014). Production and Intentionality. In P. Stockwell, & S. Whiteley (Eds.), The Cambridge Handbook of Stylistics (132-148). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (CUP)