ENG 4339 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Leonard Woolf, Bloomsbury Group, Materialism
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Ulysses/ mrs. dalloway: woolf on james joyce, i should be reading ulysses have been amused puzzled, bored, irritated . First rate writer. it is of the most sincerity : didn"t hate joyce but was upset he accomplished what she was in the process of doing before she could and differently. To me her stream of consciousness seems artificial and constructed. Impressionism: writing that seeks to capture transitory, subjective impressions of characters, settings, and events, both ulysses and mrs. dalloway can be considered impressionistic . Subjective reality: woolf speaks about words, words are subjective, reality is subjective, 2164 the motor car same dark nobody knew. The face itself just an impression. : people saw the same thing but interpreted it in different ways. Time and big ben: the hours, working title, michael cunningham, the hours, sound/image of structural and symbolic importance, 2208 (noon is the halfway point in the novel, emphasizing non-linear time, ex.
