Teacher's
notes

-Virginia
Woolf: moments of being

-James Joyce:
paralysis

She rejected
standards/cannons of novelists she considered "materialists"

She wanted to
focus her attention  on the subjectivity of characters

Only
subjectivity can convey truth in human society

She tried to
create novels that rendered the flow of consciousness to reach her
aim

She conveys
the inner life of her characters throughout flashbacks and
flash-forwards

She was
a skilled exponent of "the stream of consciousness": interior
monologue
In "The
Common Reader" she well expressed her idea of life

"the life
on Monday or Tuesday": to examine (analisi
molto precisa) an ordinary mind in an
ordinary day

The mind
receives impressions of different nature, trivial or banal but also
very important, these impressions are incessant and they create the
shape of a day

Since it
is such impressions that make up people ordinary life, it is such
impressions that the writer has to convey to the reader: "no
plot, no tragedy....."