ENGLISH 125D Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Inflectional Phrase, World War I
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Woolf was a voracious reader, inspiration from whole range of sources; also infl by visual arts. Woolf"s interpretation of multiperspectivism: depicting the world in term of web of relations, interiors all related. Also reflects on conditions of the modern - we"re linked in web of relations, but rarely connect. Novel allows entry into rich interior lives, but day to day interaxns are quite superficial formal experimentation has an argument behind it. 3rd person omniscient narration only gives a small segment of what"s going on, all we"re privy to in daily interactions; greater truth by delving into interiors. Novel gives account of what"s in septimus" head, constant state of war, living in space of disaster/catastrophe all the time. But rezia can only see the symptoms, can only interact w/ his silence. Woolf wrote that she wanted to tell the story behind every face - what"s going on behind. Gives account of simultaneous atomization of every interior/psyche (idea of self- contained monads)
