Download Comparison between James Joyce and Virginia Woolf

Baldin Ruben
Class 5A
 The adoption of the interior
monologue
 Plot is reduced to the
minimum
 There are simultaneous time
and chronological time
 Omniscient third person
narrator
 The shift of the point of view
 Poetical language with
poetical devices
 Stream of consciousness
 Simultaneous time
 No punctuation
 Narrative realism
 Mythic method
Stream of consciousness
a narrative device to depict the multitudinous thoughts
and feelings which pass through the mind.
In James Joyce
in Virginia Woolf
Intellectual analysis of human being
supported by a searched and brave
language ( metaphors and new
words) and without the inseriment of
the third person narrator
Use the third narrator, and indirect
interior monologue to represent a
gap between chronological and
interior time, the retoric speech of
analogy rappresents a lighthouse for
for the reader
extreme objectivity of events,
and the narrator is covered
the narrator is also present, he
helps the reader to orient in the text
“a sudden spiritual manifestation, whether in the
vulgarity of speech or of gesture or in a memorable
phase of the mind itself. He believed that
it was for the man of letters to record these epiphanies
with extreme care, seeing that they
themselves are the most delicate and evanescent of
moments. “ quotation by James Joyce’ s Stephen hero
in James Joyce
it is a realization that occurs at
the end of the story (it has a
similar function to moral in fairy
tales), it happens at a time like
lightning (in a short part of
time).
in Virginia Woolf
it is a process that develops
during the all story, it is the
result of a reflection in a very
long time.
Fonetic retoric speech
 In both artist have function to find the
associations between the events described and
memories to start the reflections of themselves
 Accompany the advent of epiphany have the same
function of leimotiv in music
Analogies
Differences
 Use of stream of
 Different presentation of
consciousness
 Focus on the psychology
of characters
 Use of fonetic retoric
speech and symbolism
 exceed the canons of
romance buildum
epiphany
 level of objectivity
(higher in James Joyce)
Sources: notes during english lessons, notes of teacher in site, and
http://connection.ebscohost.com/c/articles/60073620/james -joyces-epiphanyvirginia-woolfs-moment-importance