ENGLISH 45C Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Skywriting, Internal Monologue, Epicenter
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Like eliot"s waste land, set in london in aftermath of wwi takes place entirely in 1 day, mid-june 1923. Waste land"s constant anxiety about time ( hurry up please it"s time, etc) appears in mrs. Can track progress of novel b/c woolf continuously gives clocks ringing the hours. Working title of mrs. dalloway: the hours . Can navigate thru book by noting when outside, culturally-agreed-upon time is enforced. P4, big ben strikes - irrevocable, time as assaultive free direct discourse - seamless switches between internal monologue ( what a lark! ) and omniscient narration ( for so it had always seemed to her ) Unit of the sentence is a fundamentally diff thing in woolf"s hands. Woolf"s diary entry: i have no time to describe my plans. We often dunno where we are in a sentence (what"s the subject/verb/predicate?) Woolf called it her tunnelling process - gotta tunnel in caves behind charas (pasts, memories)
