English 1900 Study Guide - Feminazi, Mary Seton

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Virginia woolf is a very important modernist writer. When discussing modernism we will assume to be 1900-1945 in this class. People began to question the traditional literary forms and genres. We see a focus on fragmentation: trying to understand the world by pulling together these fragments. Stream of consciousness: way of writing to imitate the interior world of a particular way. We get a lot of isolation as well: see this type of anxiety forming as well. Get formal experimentation on top of all of these challenges: tangential narrative going on, begin challenging values held beforehand. Medic realism is being challenged and begin to move into the interior. Begin to lament the loss of truth and find truths: post modernists celebrate the loss of truth. We can see fragments and stream of consciousness in virginia woolf"s work. Virginia woolf is an excellent writer and she does it in this certain way.