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• Topic : Richness of Technical devices in Virginia Woolf’s “To The Lighthouse”
• Name : Urvi Bhatt • Paper Name: The Modernist
Literature• Paper No: 9• Sem : 3• Roll No: 31• Enrolment no: PG13101005• Submitted to: Department of
English Maharaja Krishnakumarsinhji Bhavnagar University.
About Virginia Woolf
• Born on 25th January, 1882
• England’s most prestigious literary family
• A precarious balance of extra-ordinary success and mental instability.
About To The Lighthouse
• Novel written in 1927• Landmark of high
modernism• the novel centers on
Ramsays and their visit to the Isle of Skye in Scotland between 1910 and 1920.
• Includes little dialogue and almost no action, most of it written as thoughts and observations.
Woolf ’s literary theory and experimental Techniques
Stream of Consciousness
Interior Monologue
Free Association
Stream of Consciousness
• It is narrative made of device that seeks
“to depict the multitudinous thoughts and feelings which pass through the mind.”
• Coined for the 1st time by American psychologist William James.
Stream of Consciousness includes impression
of
Visual
Associat
ive
Sublim
inal
Physical
Au
dito
ry
Interior Monologue
• Rhetorical term that refers to literary technique.
• It is a technique of
Representing the psychic
content Representing consciousness
Define Interior Monologue
• “ Interior monologue is then the technique used in fiction for representing the psychic content and process of character, partly or entirely unuttered, just as these process exist at various level of conscious control before they are formulated for deliberate speech.”
Use of Interior Monologue:
to give the novel its special character of seeming to be always within the consciousness of the chief characters.
narrator almost disappears the point of view overlaps
with the internal thoughts of the characters.
Sequence of Interior Monologue
Thought Memories
Feelings
Features of Interior Monologue Verbal expression
Immediate Internal and External level of
narration No chronological order No presence of subjective
time Disregards rules of
punctuation No formal logical order
The omniscient narrator disappears and the point of view shifts:
Flashbacks Associations of ideas impressions
Narrators control
• Narrator never lets the character’s thoughts flow without control
• Characters are not interrupted by external events.
• Use of Parentheses in Lily’s dialogue
Phrases
Semicolons
Parentheses
Poetic
Allusive
Emotional
Woolf ’s use of words are
experimental (language)
Woolf ’s unique devices
Free Association
• Controlling the movement of ‘Stream of Consciousness’ in fiction has been an application of the principles of psychological free association.
Importance of free narration
Extended the scope and level of writing
Breaks out the traditional narrative
Joins the incidents of past, present and future
Three factors control the Free Association
Senses
Memory
Imagination
Example of Free Association
• Mrs. Ramsay tells a story to James, of Fisherman's wife.
• Consoles her husband
This way the process of the story telling is contently interspersed with other
elements.Mrs. Ramsay’s stream of
consciousness is clear, as it is controlled by the principle of
free association through memory, senses and
imagination.
Lily’s S.O.C. while looking at the sea and thinks about:
Mr. Ramsay &
his children
Her painting
Mrs. Ramsay and cries
Mr. Carmichael & his poem
Conclusion
• Experimented on language, style, free association, interior monologue etc.
• Some other devices of writing skills like using parentheses, pauses etc.
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