Pointed Roofs - Pilgrimage Vol. 1 (version 2)


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"Pointed Roofs" is the first volume of "Pilgrimage," a series of thirteen autobiographical novels by Dorothy Richardson considered to have pioneered the "stream of consciousness" technique of writing. In a review of Pointed Roofs (The Egoist April 1918), May Sinclair first applied the term "stream of consciousness" in her discussion of Richardson's stylistic innovations. Richardson, however, preferred the term "interior monologue." Miriam Henderson, the central character in Pilgrimage, is based on the author's own life between 1891 and 1915. Richardson also important as a feminist writer because of the way her work assumes the validity and importance of female experiences as a subject for literature. Her wariness of the conventions of language, her bending of the normal rules of punctuation, sentence length, and so on, are used to create a feminine prose, which Richardson saw as necessary for the expression of female experience. Virginia Woolf in 1923 noted that Richardson "has invented, or, if she has not invented, developed and applied to her own uses, a sentence which we might call the psychological sentence of the feminine gender." ( Wikipedia [edited by Expatriate]) (5 hr 56 min)

Chapters

Chapter 01 20:33 Read by Expatriate
Chapter 02 15:59 Read by Expatriate
Chapter 03, Sections 01-05 20:14 Read by Expatriate
Chapter 03, Sections 06-13 21:29 Read by Expatriate
Chapter 03, Sections 14-18 18:24 Read by Expatriate
Chapter 03, Sections 19-21 20:27 Read by Expatriate
Chapter 04 14:32 Read by Expatriate
Chapter 05, Sections 01-08 20:20 Read by Expatriate
Chapter 05, Sections 09-17 20:27 Read by Expatriate
Chapter 06, Sections 01-06 18:31 Read by Expatriate
Chapter 06, Sections 07-12 20:07 Read by Expatriate
Chapter 06, Sections 13-17 15:21 Read by Expatriate
Chapter 06, Sections 18-22 17:03 Read by Expatriate
Chapter 07 3:09 Read by Expatriate
Chapter 08, Sections 01-04 14:47 Read by Expatriate
Chapter 08, Sections 05-09 15:02 Read by Expatriate
Chapter 08, Sections 10-14 16:23 Read by Expatriate
Chapter 09 8:08 Read by Expatriate
Chapter 10, Sections 01-05 20:28 Read by Expatriate
Chapter 10, Sections 06-11 22:28 Read by Expatriate
Chapter 10, Sections 12-13 12:22 Read by Expatriate