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Modernist writers, VIRGINIA WOOLF - Coggle Diagram
Modernist writers
JAMES JOYCE
Style
He wants to reproduce realism through free-direct speech, third-person narration and interior monologue
DUBLINERS
The main theme is paralysis, which can be physical or moral
Joyce employed the technique of epiphany: it occours when an objet, an image or a situation arouses the character's memory
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A modernist writer
The setting of most of his works is Ireland, especially Dublin
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He gives a great importance to the inner world of the characters, to the time and to represent life objectively.
EDWARD MORGAN FORSTER
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Language and style
He uses an obtrusive omniscient narrator and he often shifts the point of view from a character to another
JOSEPH CONRAD
ideas
he thought that the writer shoud not amuse his readers, but he shoud represent the complex pattern of life
settings
he sets his stories in isolated places, for example sea, jungle or exotic latitudes
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narrative techniques
Conrad broke the chronological sequence and he uses time shifts and a first-person narrator, who is invisible. The reader can identify himself in the characters
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VIRGINIA WOOLF
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She wrote "Mrs Dalloway"
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plot
Clarissa Dalloway is a wealthy London hostess. She recalls her life befor marrying Richard Dalloway and her relationship with Peter Walsh
There is an another character, Septimus Smith, a shell-shocked veteran of World War I. At Clarissa's party they speak about Septimus' suicide
characters
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Clarissa finally accepts her conditions, whereas Septimus suicides himself
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