tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-641443496612927441.post9054718531146680755..comments2023-09-11T05:46:29.728-03:00Comments on Novel Readings: Virginia Woolf, Mrs. DallowayRohan Maitzenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12111722115617352412noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-641443496612927441.post-85271465795321824162009-08-18T23:44:14.739-03:002009-08-18T23:44:14.739-03:00I recall how Woolf made exquisite use of time moti...I recall how Woolf made exquisite use of time motifs in MRS. DALLOWAY, which you brought back to my mind when you included the excerpt that begins, "Big Ben struck the half hour." MRS. DALLOWAY was an a wonderful reading experience when I first encountered it, and it continues to please and impress me; I have included it (not always with success) as a novel in my literature courses.R/Thttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07791522136032565027noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-641443496612927441.post-47142880481937632872009-08-11T11:26:25.895-03:002009-08-11T11:26:25.895-03:00Absolutely right, Rohan, in my opinion. You have ...Absolutely right, Rohan, in my opinion. You have "Time Passes" coming up in Lighthouse. Rather than concentrating on who said what to whom? and how can so-and-so be here at this point? I first think of this primarily as "oh, here are external representations of how it feels when time passes or here is how we might understand how the paint chips off our insides" -- and, of Craig Monkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01351954625656496914noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-641443496612927441.post-2948679697161408842009-08-11T10:30:09.236-03:002009-08-11T10:30:09.236-03:00Thank you all for these comments. I think the poin...Thank you all for these comments. I think the point about fewer words per page is a good one (one thing I like about my Sony Reader--though that's not how I read Mrs D--is that when I increase the font size for my tired eyes, it gives me about one paragraph per screen, which really does help the mind focus, rather than skim!). Craig, your suggestion to read modernist texts "first as Rohan Maitzenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12111722115617352412noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-641443496612927441.post-20732173641834760932009-08-11T01:11:00.371-03:002009-08-11T01:11:00.371-03:00I think Dalloway was the final Woolf I read, after...I think Dalloway was the final Woolf I read, after Waves, even. With the possible exception of Lighthouse, it's the one that teaches best.<br /><br />So much of Woolf happens in people's heads; I really like that there are events in Dalloway to which you can point: see? this *happened* to so-and-so. It allows students to maintain their faith in positivist reality.<br /><br />And, I knowCraig Monkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01351954625656496914noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-641443496612927441.post-70288864710010844782009-08-09T22:39:59.621-03:002009-08-09T22:39:59.621-03:00Those are my two favorite passages as well. They ...Those are my two favorite passages as well. They clarified so much for me.maitressehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02626737113043652183noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-641443496612927441.post-27207684976991304762009-08-06T19:21:49.619-03:002009-08-06T19:21:49.619-03:00"I won't add any more commentary on my ow..."I won't add any more commentary on my own, except the brief observation that I hadn't realized it was so much about London"<br /><br />Isn't it interesting how _Mrs Dalloway_, a classic Modernist stream-of-consciousness text, gives at the same time such a sense of place, and of the irreducible density of objects and sensations. There's the cakes at the department storeJRussellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17282582946775301868noreply@blogger.com