Modernist fiction: V. Woolf and J. Joyce·      

The area is meant to provide a series of resources aimed at supporting students'study.
At the same time the section will guide students'critical approach to modernist literary output.

The following links will surely guide their personal discovery.
Virginia Woolf
 
Refer to for an introduction to Mrs. Dalloway
Find out more about Virginia Woolf.
Read the first pages of Mrs. Dalloway.
About Mrs. Dalloway.
Read V.Woolf's Essay on Modern Fiction.
Modern Fiction. An extract for study
Moments of Being
James Joyce
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Read on line Ulysses
On Ulysses 
Linati Schema
About James Joyce
Analyse an excerpt from Penelope
The Mythical Method
J. Joyce's Epiphany   Definition

Teacher's notes on epiphany
Epiphany
Interpretations
J. Joyce around Europe 

 
Read the essay and consider the structure of the essay.
Find out the function of each different paragraph
 
 After that, also considering your notes on Modernist Fiction find out:
 
what modernism fiction is
what aspects make clear and  mark modernism and modernist fiction in contrast to earlier and later trends in literature and the novel
what nineteenth century literature was mostly concerned with
the new way of conceiving knowledge , time, the individual, consciousness in Modernist fiction