Results obtained from this study show that a significant number of participants identified shifts in point of view and that this narrative phenomenon tends to require more reading time and processing effort.Between the Acts is the final novel by Virginia Woolf. After assigning narrative point of view to the four passages, participants were instructed to rate each passage between 1 and 6 both in terms of difficulty in comprehension and in terms of difficulty in viewpoint attribution.
A re-reading task was set up: in the first reading, participants read for general comprehension, and in the second reading, they were asked to identify whose point(s) of view each passage is narrated from. For the purpose of comparison, another three passages containing a consistent narrative point of view were also selected. The main experiment material is a passage from To the Lighthouse, in which the narrative viewpoint shifts between two characters. In order to gain a better understanding of this issue, the current study combines qualitative and quantitative approaches in the investigation. linguistic training, respond to this stylistic feature. While the frequent viewpoint shifts in Woolf’s novels have been noted by critics and literary linguists, only a limited amount of research has been conducted to examine how ‘ordinary readers’, that is, readers without much literary or. This paper reports an empirical study that investigates reader responses to a prominent narrative phenomenon in Virginia Woolf’s novels: shifts in point of view. These widely recognized modes are described by William Peden as scene, in which the author depicts the action in the process of its taking place summary, in which the author compresses action necessary to include but not of specific importance or interest to require more direct scenic method and descripition, in which the author halts action to describe what the narrator or the characters see. In order to discuss the techniques used by Virginia Woolf in her last novel, Between the Acts, 1 it is necessary to make a few general comments about the basic modes of narration.
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