Mrs. Dalloway: Modern Fiction in a Modern World

Scholarly Essay from the year 2009 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 8 - A, University of Minho (Arts and Humanities), course: MA in English Studies, language: English, abstract: The present essay is an analysis of the novel Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf. The novel will be analyzed through a modernist and postmodernist perspective. The presentation of the essay will raise issues and questions regarding the status of representation and issues of the self in the view of Mrs. Dalloway which we will be looking at, closely, through the lens of the modern fiction.