1.The most experimental narrative strategies in Modernist fiction disrupt the concept of plot, space and time to enter characters' inner reality. It follows that external reality is replaced by the private room of conscience which implies a simultaneous idea of time, rendered through the eclipse of the narrator, the use of free indirect speeches in the interior monologue and the stream of consciousness, the leitmotiv and the focus on moments of being or epiphanies to convey the utmost moment of existence. Plot is reduced to the minimum to allow subjective dynamics to come to surface.

2. The handling of time in Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway is two folded: on the one side you see the protagonist moving around London and being disturbed by the strikes of the Big Ben that is a chronological organization of time, on the other hand, the reader has a straightforward contact with Clarissa's subjective reality rendered through a narrative traveling in space and time as to interconnected realities of her consciousness. Leitmotivs and moments of being add a poetical flavor to the flow of her consciousness.

3. The Aesthetic Movement covered the last decades of the 19^th century. Its main tenet was the slogan ‘art for art's sake' that summed up the core idea of the Aesthetes according to whom the only goal to be pursued in life was Beauty, pleasure and sensations, as an alternate possibility to the materialistic view of the world of the Victorian age. The main representative writer was Oscar Wilde, who was convinced there were no moral principles in art, because art had only to be beautiful and accordingly literature was to be well written. In this choice he follows the theory of his professor at Oxford, Walter Pater, who affected the literary experimentation of all Modernists.  

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