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Up to 5B - Modernist Fiction. V. Woolf and J. Joyce
The main aim of Modernism was to put the subjectivity at the center of investigation. Fiction writers focus their attention in the world of consciousness and they no longer believe traditional novel could return a faithful idea of life to the reader.
Virginia Woolf invites the reader to look within and at life. In her opinion traditional novel is not able to convey what life is like because it neglected the way in which impressions come into mind in the shape of "a innumerable shower of atoms". It follows that she adopts new techiniques like internal monologue, shift of point of view, moment of being, metaphorical use of the language remanding poetry, disrigarding chronological time arrangement of events (she prefered to follow the flashes of consiousness going forward or backward), simultaneous concept of time where the present includes past memories and future expectations. Besides Virginia Woolf, James Joyce is considered the greatest novelist of the western world in history, he tooks his experimentations to the maximum. He was interested in conveying reality as it really is and he adopted myth as the structuring principle of his novel, indeed the myth if Ulysse's Odyssey provides the content to give unity and organization to his masterpiece. What James Joyce was trying to do was to render the reality of his time in the most realistic way. That is way he adopted the total stream of consciousness technique. His prose is very complex, there are not connectors, no punctuation, no paragraphs. According to the workings of the stream of consousness, conscience flows apparently in circular way. It follows that the position of the reader becomes utmost important: indeed he had to provide the logical and sematinc connection to the flow of words. He also reduces the plot to the minimal in that what was mainly interested in was the inner life of his characters. Ulysses was written in 1922. Ulysses is about the life of three charactes: Leopold Bloom, his wife Penelope and Stephen Dedalus, a young man he meets in one of Dublin's pubs,
Ulysses is about a single day in Dublin in June 1904. the protagonist, Stephen Dedalus, an arrogant striken artist and intellectual in spiritual exile from his country and family. He is seeking a father while Leopold Bloom is a Jew adverting-space salesman. By virtueof being Jew also in exile he is seekong a son. They represent, in essence Telemachus and Odysseus
Virginia Woolf invites the reader to look within and at life. In her opinion traditional novel is not able to convey what life is like because it neglected the way in which impressions come into mind in the shape of "a innumerable shower of atoms". It follows that she adopts new techiniques like internal monologue, shift of point of view, moment of being, metaphorical use of the language remanding poetry, disrigarding chronological time arrangement of events (she prefered to follow the flashes of consiousness going forward or backward), simultaneous concept of time where the present includes past memories and future expectations. Besides Virginia Woolf, James Joyce is considered the greatest novelist of the western world in history, he tooks his experimentations to the maximum. He was interested in conveying reality as it really is and he adopted myth as the structuring principle of his novel, indeed the myth if Ulysse's Odyssey provides the content to give unity and organization to his masterpiece. What James Joyce was trying to do was to render the reality of his time in the most realistic way. That is way he adopted the total stream of consciousness technique. His prose is very complex, there are not connectors, no punctuation, no paragraphs. According to the workings of the stream of consousness, conscience flows apparently in circular way. It follows that the position of the reader becomes utmost important: indeed he had to provide the logical and sematinc connection to the flow of words. He also reduces the plot to the minimal in that what was mainly interested in was the inner life of his characters. Ulysses was written in 1922. Ulysses is about the life of three charactes: Leopold Bloom, his wife Penelope and Stephen Dedalus, a young man he meets in one of Dublin's pubs,
Ulysses is about a single day in Dublin in June 1904. the protagonist, Stephen Dedalus, an arrogant striken artist and intellectual in spiritual exile from his country and family. He is seeking a father while Leopold Bloom is a Jew adverting-space salesman. By virtueof being Jew also in exile he is seekong a son. They represent, in essence Telemachus and Odysseus