The Victorian Age

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The Victorian Age

• It is the phase of the Reign of Queen Victoria
  (1837 1901), in which the novel becomes the
  leading form of literature in England.
• significant Novelists
• Charles Dickens
• William Thackeray
• Anna, Charlotte and Emily Brontë
• George Eliot

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Narrative Technique in the Victorian Novel

• Point of view
• Linear concept of time
• plot and structure converge almost completely in
  the text.

first or third person narrator
omniscient or limited narrator.
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The Modern Age

• Modernism is an aesthetics movements that goes
  from 1890 to 1930.
• It may be considered a rejection against the
  Victorian Age because there is a radical
  transformation in the way in which people see the
  World, so there is a different concept of life.
• Important Modernist Writers
• Virginia Woolf
• James Joyce

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In Modern Fiction

• In Modern fiction, for example, there is a
  change in the concept of time Albert Einsteins
  Theory of Relativity leads to a simultaneous
  concept of time, in which past and future exist
  together in characters mind.
• Other important innovations are
• Minimum plot
• A focus on the psychology of the individual
• The eclipse of the narrator
• The shift of the point of view

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Virginia Woolfs Mrs. Dalloway

• It is a suitable example of Modern fiction, in
  which V.Woolf adopts some interesting narrative
  techniques
• The Interior Monologue, in which the reader has
  got the feeling to be inside characters mind. He
  can know everything about characters present,
  past and future.
• Moment of Being is a moment when an individual is
  totally conscious of his experience. In her
  moments of being Woolf uses a language that comes
  near poetry.
• In the novel there is a simultaneous concept of
  time, however exist a relation between the time
  of narration and the chronological time.

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James Joyces Ulysses

• It is another right model of Modern fiction, in
  which Joyce develops some narrative techniques
• The stream of consciousness, in which the first
  person narrator is disappeared and the reader has
  the impression to be near the character.
• There are not punctuation, syntax and logical
  connections.
• Mythical Method consists in a continuous parallel
  between contemporaneity and antiquity.
• Epiphany designates the moment in narrative when
  events, imagines and ideas have reached critical
  mass and produce for the reader an explosive
  recognition of meaning.