Power point Victorian novel Virginia Woolf James Joyce

1. PowerpointVictoriannovelVirginia WoolfJames Joyce Caterina Sguassero

2. VictorianNovel • 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).

3. Literaturedevices • Narrator:alwayspresentvisibleboth in 3° and 1° person. Itisomnicient and alternatessummariesofpreviousevents, personal commentries, scenes, character’s description, conversation, rteportedconversations, conclusions and precis. • The plot isvery long. Itisorganizedinto a lotofchapters.

4. Virginia Woolf She is a Modern writer: She Rejects the traditional sandards of the victorian literature. Radical trasformation in wich people consider realityand concept of life. Charls Darwin and the theory of evolution Einstein’s theory of relativity: In literature space and time were no linear. Present exist in the mind of the character. • time of conciousness, Internal monologe. No story line , focus on the conciousness of characters • Plot is reduced to the minimum:one day • Narrator is eclipsed, shift of the point of view Mrs dalloway

6. James Joyce Ulysses • Time issimultaneous. Streamofconciousness • No story line. Focus on the conciousnessofcharacter • Plot isreducedto the minimum • Narratordisappears Narratordisappears, no connectors, no puntuation, the useoflanguage and of the samestructurelet’s the readerunderstant the text. The readermust cooperate with the text.