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CONTENTS
ABSTRACT ……………………………….……………………………………………………… 2
INTRODUCTION ……………………………………………………………………………….. 3
CHAPTER 1. THE ROOTS OF MODERNISM…………………………………………………... 8
1.1. The Historical Overview of Modernist Movement ………………………………….. 12
1.2. The Literary Context of Modernism ……………………………………………....... 17
1.3. New Values and Insights into the Representation of Modernist Reality……………... 21
CHAPTER 2. THE FEATURES OF MODERNIST LITERARY
DISCOURSE AND ISSUES
OF PSYCHOLOGISM ….…………………………………………………………………………26
2.1.
The Language Revolution,
Stream of Consciousness, and Free Indirect Discourse ..... 28
2.2. The Evolution of the Notion of Time in Literary Discourse.......................................... 36
2.3. The Fragmented Time Philosophy in Modernism.......................................................... 40
2.4. Alterations of Time Due to the Deictic Centre………………………………………... 43
CHAPTER 3. THE INTERFACE OF TIME AND SPACE IN MODERNIST LITERATURE….. 48
3.1. The Linguistic and Literary Perspective of Time ………….. ……………………..... 56
3.2. Represented and Representational Time ….……………………………………….... 59
3.3. The Relation between Time and Space in Modernist Discourse ………...….…….... 62
3.4. A General Overview of Virginia Woolf’s Fiction and Concept of Time ..................... 66
CHAPTER 4. SHIFT OF TIME IN VIRGINIA WOOLF’S
TO THE LIGHTHOUSE ...……….. 71
4.1. Psychological and Ideational Relations between Time and Space in
the Discourse of the
Novel .................................................................................................................................... 72
4.2. The Temporal Perspective of Themes and Structure in the Novel …...………….…….. 75
4.3. The Conceptual and Contextual Metaphor of Time and Space in the Novel ………..... 82
CONCLUSIONS ……………….………………………………………………………………... 88
SUMMARY …….……………………………………………………………………………….. 93
REFERENCES ……………….………………………….…………………………………………95