Power point Victorian novel Virginia Woolf James Joyce

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Power pointVictorian novel Virginia WoolfJames
Joyce

• Caterina Sguassero

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Victorian Novel

• Main features
• idealized portraits of difficult lives in which
  hard work, perseverance, love and luck win out in
  the end.
• Virtue would be rewarded and wrongdoers are
  suitably punished.
• it gives a moral lesson at the end.

is the literature produced during the reign of
Queen Victoria (1837-1901) (the Victorian era).
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Literature devices

• Narratoralways present visible both in 3 and 1
  person. It is omnicient and alternates summaries
  of previous events, personal commentries, scenes,
  characters description, conversation, rteported
  conversations, conclusions and precis.
• The plot is very long. It is organized into a lot
  of chapters.

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Virginia Woolf
She is a Modern writer She Rejects the
traditional sandards of the victorian
literature.
Radical trasformation in wich people consider
reality and concept of life.
Einsteins theory of relativity In literature
space and time were no linear. Present exist in
the mind of the character.
Charls Darwin and the theory of evolution

• time of conciousness, Internal monologe. No story
  line , focus on the conciousness of characters
• Plot is reduced to the minimumone day
• Narrator is eclipsed, shift of the point of view

Mrs dalloway
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James Joyce
Ulysses

• Time is simultaneous. Stream of conciousness
• No story line. Focus on the conciousness of
  character
• Plot is reduced to the minimum
• Narrator disappears

Narrator disappears, no connectors, no
puntuation, the use of language and of the same
structure lets the reader understant the text.
The reader must cooperate with the text.