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PAmatruda- Modernist Fiction. V. Woolf and J. Joyce - Notes of 09.03.2012
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Virginia Woolf and James Joyce are very important examples novelist that use new narrative techniques. Their aim is to find narrative forms that render the life as it is seen.They don't believed in the traditional novel.These novelists focus their attention on the subjectivity of their characters. They underlines the imperfection of human and the importance of their inner. Their feelings, ears, wishes and memories influence them as well as the context in which they are.
Virginia Woolf uses in the novel Mrs Dalloway the interior monologue to render the flow of thoughts. In Mrs Dalloway the narrator is omniscent and third person, Virginia doesn't use a single point of view but uses an indirect free style of narration so the reader seems to be in intimate contact with what the character is thinking and feeling. Therefore the narrator is eclipsed to bring out the text the mental magma of the characters. In Virginia Woolf's style there are still connectors and the concept of the time is divided in time of consciousness, private and inner, and time of clock, external and marked by the Big Bang sound.
James Joyce also wants to be realisticand to render the flow of thoughts uses in th Ulysses the total stream of consciousness tecnique. There is a total disgregation of the syntax. Joyce uses the language of sense impression, as well as Virginia Woolf does, to create a prosodic rythm that brings the narration together. He wants to rendere what happens in his characters minds realistic.
Jung thought that humans are conditioned by their belonging to the occidental race. When a great artist must be born he must have a valid language skill to succeed in creating an alternative language.
Before arriving to the Ulysses James Joyce did many experiments among which are important "the Dubliners. With The Dubliners James Joyce wants to render the paralysis of Dubliners, their inability to change situations and do a choice.The last short story from the Dubliners is also the most important:"The Dead"