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    Virginia Woolf was a prominent British author and figure of literary modernism. Her novel Mrs. Dalloway takes place in post-World War I London as it follows Clarissa Dalloway preparing for a party and the parallel story of a man named Septimus Warren Smith who commits suicide. The novel employs modernist literary techniques like stream of consciousness narrative, interior time through flashbacks and memories, and multiple points of view to explore themes of identity in the aftermath of war.

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    Virginia Woolf was a prominent British author and figure of literary modernism. Her novel Mrs. Dalloway takes place in post-World War I London as it follows Clarissa Dalloway preparing for a party and the parallel story of a man named Septimus Warren Smith who commits suicide. The novel employs modernist literary techniques like stream of consciousness narrative, interior time through flashbacks and memories, and multiple points of view to explore themes of identity in the aftermath of war.

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    Mrs Dalloway

    Virginia Wolf

    Virginia Woolf
    1882-1941
    British author, critic
    Central figure of modernism
    Mental illness
    Suicide

    Literary Modernism
    Beginning of the 20th century 1965
    Cultural shocks (War) need to express
    Experimental literature, individualism
    Reaction against Victorian culture

    Mrs Dalloway
    June day in post World War I London
    Clarissa Dalloway gives a party
    Peter Walsh returns
    Parallel story of Septimus Warren Smith suicide

    Modernistic features in Mrs Dalloway


    No plot, action; instead auditory, visual impressions
    Flashbacks,memory interior time, unites the characters
    Repetition
    Question of identity, phsychoanalysis
    Stream of consciousness, multiple narrative point

    Sources
    Simion, Minodora Otilia.Modernism and Virginia Woolfs novel Mrs Dalloway University of
    Trgu Jiu, Letter and Social Science Series
    http://www.online-literature.com/periods/modernism.php
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virginia_Woolf

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