ENG 3320 Lecture Notes - Lecture 22: 1918 Flu Pandemic, Internal Monologue, World War I
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Big on giving real portrayal of people. Tools of edwardians not working anymore for her. Mental illness part of her life from early on (mrs. d) she eventually drowned herself. Mr wells, mr. bennett : too interested in stuff, materialists. Look within believe it. (2152: key. Influences all out there. (mrs. d time: new vision of fiction in mind idea of fragmentation and alienation. Tunnel back to get only what"s needed for characters. Structure: single day june 1923 (temporal, ordering principle is big ben. Social economic and urban modernity: changing lives of men and women, wwi and technology, spanish influenza (clarissa is survivor) Self-referentiality, discontinuous temporalities, no discreet omniscience, ambiguity over certainty, world being alienated from tradition. After peter a terrible confession it was . Of daisy. : contradictions, inferior monologue but narrator is there, wants all of into one moment.