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VIRGINIA WOOLF (1882-1941) - Coggle Diagram
VIRGINIA WOOLF (1882-1941)
LIFE
(1882-1941)
her father was Leslie Stephen
that's why she had free access to his library
she grew in a literary and intellectual atmosphere
childhood trauma and sexual abuse
led her to depression
the second world war increased her anxiety and fear
she wrote a suicidal note and drowned herself in the river ouse with rocks in her poket
LITERARY CAREER
1904: she moved to Bloomsbury and became a member of the Bloomsbury Group
Bloomsbury group
rejection of traditional morality and artistic conventions
(1904- until the second world war)
one of the great experimental novelists during the modernist period.
Main Themes: androgyny, Time, Idealism, Realism, Art, the transient nature of reality, and Love.
feminist writer
She started her literary career by writing articles and essays for literary journals
A MODERNIST NOVELIST
Main Aim
give voice to the complex inner
world of feelings and memory.
Human personality
as a shift beetween impressions and emotions
when still present the
Omiscent Narrator
adapt to the charcter point of view
Point of view
follows the association of ideas based on momentary impressions.
Just like a continuos flux.
STREAM OF CONSCIOUSNESS VS TRADITIONAL TECHNIQUE
Stream-of-consciousness
technique
actions/plot based on character's mental process
character developed
through revelation of extremely personal thoughts
The action moves through present time to past events and future dreams.
Dramatic
monologue
and free association
Traditional technique
omniscent narrator
dialogue or narrator description
real,
chronological
time
commentary
by the narrator
WOOLF
vs
JOYCE
In her novels the characters have:
thoughts
with a specific
logical organization
Moments of being: sporadics moments in that they have a insights, thanks to them
the characters can see the reality over the apperances
.
In his novels the characters have:
the
revelation
of their
thoughts
thanks to their
interior
and
contradictory monologue
The author use the sequently tecnique:
EPIPHANIES
from the Greek: "
appearance
"
talk about a reality that it loads with a
mysterious intensity of significance
like a
momentary revelation
of the
absolute
the character is taken to the
self-realisation
about
himself/herself