Virginia Woolf: Mrs Dalloway

Isolation and Communication A Stylistic Analysis of Thought Presentation in Mrs. Dalloway

“…Some trace influencing forces upon Woolf's literary creation to her extensive exposure to the "radical intellectual development in philosophy and science" in the Bloomsbury circle like Einstein's relativism (Whitworth, 2001:146). As Whitworth (2015) claims, the distinction between time on the clock and time in the mind, la durée and le temps in Bergson's philosophy, underlines the modernist experiments with time and narrative form (58-59). To truly reflect a rhythmical order emerging out of the chaotic life as people perceive it against imposed system of order like the social hierarchies, Woolf opts out of the formal railway line of sentences and for a non-linear, fluid and fragmentary narrative syntax.…”

“…Banfield, 1982;Cohn, 1978;Ehrlich, 1990;Humphrey, 1954;Lambert, 2011;Sotirova, 2013). However, most previous studies are more concerned with non-linguistic aspects of this novel like its psychoanalytical, socio-historical, and philosophical implications (Whitworth, 2015). Linguistic studies are more devoted to the linguistic features of one particular category of thought presentation, free indirect thought, which helps to align the text with the individual character's viewpoint, and other linguistic devices that facilitate the viewpoint shift from one character to another such as connectives (Sotirova, 2004(Sotirova, , 2013, parentheticals (Blakemore, 2009).…”