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Virginia Woolf


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Life (1882-1941)

Her father Leslie Stephenwas an eminent Victorianman of letters.

She grew up in a literary

and intellectual

atmospherewith free

access to her fathers library

Childhood experiences of deathand sexualabuseled to depression

the death of her mother

when she was 13

her stepbrothers

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Leslie Stephen with Virginia Woolf.


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Life (1882-1941)

The Second World War increased her

anxietyand fears. After rewriting drafts

of her suicide note, she put rocks into

her pockets and drownedherselfin the

River Ouse.

Suicide

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Literary career

The Bloomsbury Group In 1904

she moved to Bloomsbury and became a

member of the Bloomsbury Group. Thismeant the rejection of traditional morality

and artistic convention.

Experimentation best known as oneof the great experimental novelists during

the modernist period.

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The Bloomsbury Group


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Literary career

Evolution of her style in her main novels

The Voyage Out(1915)

Night and Day (1917)

Jacobs room (1922)

Mrs. Dal loway (1925)

To the Ligh thou se (1927)

A more completely developedstream-of-consciousnesstechnique

Narrative experimentation with thenovel

Traditionalnarratives

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Literary career

A feminist writer the themes of androgyny, women and writing

Mrs. Dal loway (1925)

Orlando(1928)

A Room of Ones Own (1929)

Describes Clarissa Dalloway and

Sally Setons relationship as youngwomen

Deals with androgyny

Shows Woolfs concern with thequestions of womens subjugation

and the relationship between women

and writing

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Woolf vs Joyce

Woolfs stream of

consciousness

Joyces stream of

consciousness

never lets her characters

thoughts flow without control,

maintains logical andgrammatical organisation

characters show their

thoughts directly through

interior monologue,sometimes in an incoherent

and syntactically

unorthodox way

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Moments of being Epiphanies

Rare moments of insight

during the characters daily

life when they can seereality behind appearances

The sudden spiritual

manifestation caused by a

trivial gesture, an externalobject the character is

led to a self-realization

about himself/herself

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Woolf vs Joyce


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Mrs Dalloway (1925)

Takes place on a single ordinary day

in June 1923.

Follows the protagonist through a

very small area of London, from the

morning to the night of the day on

which she gives a large formal party.

Clarissa Dalloways party is the

climax of the novel and unifies the

narrative by gathering all the people

she thinks about during the day.

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A London society lady of fifty-one, the

wife of a Conservative MP, Richard

Dalloway, who has conventional views

on womens rights.

Had a possessive father, refused Peter

Walsh, a man who would force her to

share everything.

Clarissa Dalloway

Vanessa Redgrave as Mrs. Dalloway in Marleen Gorriss

1997 film adaptation

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Mrs Dalloway (1925)


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Characterized by opposing feelings:

her need for freedom and

independence and her class

consciousness.

Her life appears to be an effort towards

order and peace, an attempt to

overcome her weakness and sense of

failure.

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Vanessa Redgrave as Mrs. Dalloway in Marleen

Gorriss 1997 film adaptation

Mrs Dalloway (1925)

Clarissa Dalloway


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