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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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The Victorian Age Itis 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
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.
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
In Modern Fiction In Modern fiction, for example, there is a change in the concept of time: Albert Einstein’s Theory of Relativity leads to a simultaneous concept of time, in which past and future exist together in character’s 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
Virginia Woolf’s “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 character’s mind. He can know everything about character’s 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.
James Joyce’s “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.
