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Structurally, the present paper consists of four chapters. Chapter 1 presents a basic theoretical 
overview of the roots and development of the movement of Modernism and its literary context. In 
the chapter, the extralinguistic and linguistic factors that caused the rise and growth of the 
movement of Modernism are introduced and analyzed. Besides, the features of modernist literature 
influencing the modernist fiction such as stream of consciousness, Psychologism, transitivity, cliché 
elements, and others are described and compared in detail with the help of conspicuous examples. 
Chapter 2 aims to focus on the features of modernist literary discourse and on the issues of 
Psychologism in order to reveal their significant role in the literary works of modernist writers. In 
this chapter, Modernism is represented as a revolution of language that manifested itself through 
new features of narrative such as the use of represented speech as a modern form of literary 
discourse, free indirect speech, and inner monologues. The fragmented reality portraying technique 
and innovative interpretation of time and temporality are analyzed in great depth on the basis of the 
insights and comments of linguists and philosophers. Besides, this chapter of the paper reveals the 
practical study of the alterations of time due to the deictic elements and emphasizes the importance 
of the role of the deictic centre in To the Lighthouse. Finally, this chapter identifies the literary 
representation of time and space relationships that constitute part of significance of the novel and 
perform its semantic nucleus. 
Chapter 3 deals with the study of the linguistic and literary perspective of time and space in 
modernist narrative, it discusses the nature and difference between the represented and 
representational time, and covers the relation between time and space in modernist discourse. This 
chapter describes Virginia Woolf as a central figure in the modernist literature and in literary 
criticism of the early twentieth century and focuses on the analysis of her novel To the Lighthouse. 
The main stress is given to the notion of temporality in the narrative of Virginia Woolf in order to 
disclose the writer’s radically new understanding of time and the literary techniques she chooses to 
express it in the discourse of her fiction.   
Chapter 4 scrutinizes themes and structure of To the Lighthouse as well as psychological and 
ideational relations between time and space in the discourse of the given novel. The 
multidimensional notion of time is investigated on the basis of examples from Woolf’s fiction. It is 
examined how time influences the structure of the novel and how its dimensions, past and present, 
are treated. Past experiences effecting present situation and present moments reminding past 
memories are of the greatest importance. 
Indeed, as stated by Onega and Landa (1996:22), “critics from the 1930s to the 1950s paid 
particular attention to the modes of representation of inner life developed by the modernist novel, 
by Joyce, Woolf, or Faulkner. Terms such as ‘free indirect style’, ‘interior monologue’, ‘camera 

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eye’ narrative or ‘stream of consciousness’ occupy the centre of critical stage”. Moreover, the 
linguists argue convincingly that modernist literature has a tendency to lack traditional 
chronological narrative, break narrative frames, or move from one level of narrative to another 
without any warning through the words of a number of different narrators. Modern discourse often 
purposefully violates linguistic norms in order to achieve the effect. Indeed, the means of 
representation become more important than the represented issues. It may also be self-reflexive 
about the process of writing and the nature of literature. Stevenson supports Onega and Landa’s 
ideas and claims (1998:52) that unlike the literature of the nineteenth century, there is a breaking 
down of the traditional linear narrative in the modernist novel, especially in the works of Woolf, 
leaving an impression of mystery and open-endedness of the literary work. Thus, all these 
aforementioned theoretical problems of modern literature in conjunction with the modernist period 
are thoroughly studied in my paper. 

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