THE VICTORIAN AGE IN LITERATURE: MAIN FEATURES

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THE VICTORIAN AGE IN LITERATURE MAIN FEATURES

• USE OF THE OMNISCIENT 3rd PERSON NARRATOR
• THE NARRATOR IS INTRUSIVE
• COMPLICATE AND LONG PLOT
• LINEAR CONCEPT OF TIME
• NOVELS WERE DIVIDED INTO CHAPTERS
• EDUCATIONAL PURPOSE

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THE MODERN AGE
CONTEXT

• TIME 1900\1930
• REJECTION OF VICTORIAN VALUES
• THEORY OF RELATIVITY
• FREUD'S THEORIES (THE INTERPRETATION OF DREAMS)
• ANTHROPOLOGY
• JUNG'S THEORIES (RACIAL MEMORY)

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LITERATURE IN THE MODERN AGE MAIN FEATURES

• FOCUS ON AESTETHICISM
• ECLIPSE OF THE OMNISCIENT NARRATOR
• SHIFT OF THE POINT OF WIEW
• FOCUS ON SUBJECTIVITY
• INNER MONOLOGUE\ STREAM OF CONSCIOUSNESS
• USE OF MULTIPLE PERSPECTIVE
• FREE INDIRECT STYLE
• PLOT IS REDUCED TO THE MINIMUN

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JAMES JOYCE

• ULYSSES
• STREAM OF CONSCIOUSNESS
• USE OF POETICAL DEVICES
• ECLIPSE OF THE NARRATOR
• FOCUS ON SUBJECTIVITY
• EPHIPANY

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VIRGINIA WOOLF

• MRS. DALLOWAY
• INTERIOR MONOLOGUE
• PLOT REDUCED TO THE MINIMUM
• NO CHAPTERS
• SIMOLTANEOUS CONCEPT OF TIME