THE SYNTACTIC ORGANISATION OF RETROSPECTIVE INTERIOR MONOLOGUE IN THE PROSE OF JAMES JOYCE AND VIRGINIA WOOLF

Abstract

The article examines the syntactic construction of fragments of retrospective interior monologue in two English modernist novels. The two opposite poles of Joyce’s syntax – the verbless nominal fragment and the unbroken coordinated period – are described, and both are shown to remove the sentence from its role as a unit of measurement. Woolf’s parallel enumeration, in which the listed members are gathered by a resumptive predicate, is contrasted with them. The signalling of the boundary of the unit and the place of interrogative structures are analysed separately