Eng426 20th century english literature

Self-Assessment Exercise

Summarise Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway and highlight the major events of the novel.

4.0 CONCLUSION

For Woolf, there should be no dogmatic approach to novel writing. Like many other modernist writers, she affirms that there is no complete knowledge or absolute truth. She departs from the traditional rules of coherence, close ending, unified or linear representation of life, and omniscient point of view of an all-knowing presence.

5.0 SUMMARY

In this unit you have learnt about Woolf’s radical ideas that were made manifest in her works like the text we discussed, Mrs Dalloway. The features of modernism and the modernist themes that could be found in the novel are also explicated.

6.0 TUTOR-MARKED ASSIGNMENT

To what extent do you think Woolf demonstrates her modernist position in Mrs. Dalloway?

7.0 REFERENCES/ FURTHER READING.

Matz, J. (2004).The Modern Novel: A Short Introduction. USA: Blackwell Publishing.
Woolf, V. (1969). “Modern fiction.” Modern British Fiction: Essays in Criticism. Ed.
Mark Schorer. London: Oxford University Press.
---.(1988). “Mr Bennett and Mrs Brown.”The Essays of Virginia Woolf.Vol. 3.Ed.
Andrew McNeilie. London: Hogarth Press.
---. Mrs Dalloway. (1926). New York: Oxford UP, reprint 2000.

UNIT 2: D.H. Lawrence and Vitality

Content

1.0 Introduction
2.0 Objectives

0. 
   Main Content
   
1. 
   D.H. Lawrence
   
2. 
   D.H. Lawrence’s Lady Chatterley’s Lover
   
3. 
   Modernist Features in Lady Chatterley’s Lover
   
4. 
   Modernist Themes in Lady Chatterley’s Lover
   

4.0 Conclusion
5.0 Summary
6.0 Tutor-marked Assignment
7.0 References/ Further Reading