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(Edmondson, 2012) "Narrativizing Characters in 'Mrs Dalloway'…
(Edmondson, 2012) "Narrativizing Characters in 'Mrs Dalloway'"
Intro
Mrs Dalloway said that she would buy the flowers herself
Mrs Dalloway's mind
June 1923
Peter
neighbour
theorises about Clarissa's state of mind
external perspective
narrative techniques = shifting
connections between separate consciounesses
Clarissa and Peter Walsh = intersubjectivity = connected by coincidences of public life
represent other consciounesses
Woolf's tunneling process
Sylvia's tragic death + its affect on Clarissa
Peter theorises
creates a version of Mrs D in his mind
inflected 3rd person, past tense narration
imagines her inner life
mrs D
created from internal and external perspectives
intersubjectivity
not interested in creating a complete internal view of mrs D. and Smith = interested in how their minds account for other minds based on external
Smith and Clarissa must be seen from the outside
peter provides tunnel to Clarissa
Septimus's wife
From Mrs Dalloway in Bond Street to Mrs Dalloway
Septimus and Clarissa's consciousnesses are connected
complex intersubjectivities
S affects C
C affects peter (framing character)
Shift from short story to novel
Peter
focaliser
focalises mrs D's consciouness
C provokes him to reinterpret her feelings and thoughts
tunnels their interconnected past
Social minds in action
Narrativisation
theory of mind = affected by an encounter with another
clarissa = openness to being affected by those around her
clarissa = acknowledges that other minds are not perfectly knowable
free indirect discourse
Richards thoughts = seem to be examinable from the outside
Woolf frames her narrative
double cognitive narratives
versions of characters minds in other minds
clarissa
ethico-affective response
P narrativises scene of her writing
is it true?
presents us with scenes of how minds work
Affective Narrativizations
Clarissa is open to being affected by others
setting up Mrs D's mind = central dilemma of the novel
Clarissa's interiority is not completely revealed = continues to allude