Virginia Woolf - A Haunted House
Date Submitted: 09/29/2003 09:30:29
Category: / Literature / European Literature
Length: 9 pages (2492 words)
Category: / Literature / European Literature
Length: 9 pages (2492 words)
Modernist literature is marked by a break with the sequential, developmental, cause-and-effect presentation of the 'reality' of realist fiction, toward a presentation of experience as layered, allusive, discontinuous; the use, to these ends, of fragmentation and juxtaposition, motif, symbol, allusion.
Language is no longer seen as transparent, something if used correctly allows us to 'see through' to reality: rather language is seen as a complex, nuanced site of our construction of the 'real'. Experimentation in …
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…to reality; that means that the sleep is not a sleep in itself, here, in this novel, but the inspired state in which, as noticed in the whole novel, the self is related to the object by becoming one with it.
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Toolan, Michael J. Narrative. A Critical Linguistic Introduction.London & New York: Routhledge,1991
Avadanei, Stefan. Introduction to Poetics. (vol .2) . Iasi: Institutul European, 2002
Lodge, David. The Art of Fiction. London: Penguin Books, 1992 (excerpts)
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