Article published in:
Textual choices and discourse genres: Creating meaning through formEdited by Barbara Dancygier and José Sanders
[English Text Construction 3:2] 2010
► pp. 185–202
Joint attention, To the Lighthouse, and modernist representations of intersubjectivity
Vera Tobin | University of California, Santa Barbara
This paper argues that literary modernism can be productively understood as a reflection on what happens when joint attention is frustrated in its operation. Experimental fictions of the early twentieth century frequently dramatize problems of joint attention that can be traced to the ultimate relation between author, reader, and text. Analysis of these dramatizations demonstrates the importance of this joint attentional trope, and suggests a fresh reading of the famous “phantom table” in Virginia Woolf’s To the Lighthouse.
Published online: 11 October 2010
https://doi.org/10.1075/etc.3.2.04tob
https://doi.org/10.1075/etc.3.2.04tob
Cited by
Cited by 3 other publications
Edmondson
McIntyre, Dan
This list is based on CrossRef data as of 09 april 2022. Please note that it may not be complete. Sources presented here have been supplied by the respective publishers. Any errors therein should be reported to them.