Suspended in Time: Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway the element of time in a modernist novel

Suspended in Time: Virginia Woolf' Mrs. Dalloway Virginia Woolf is forefront among modernist writers like T. S. Eliott and Joseph Conrad and is most notable for her stream-of-consciousness technique. Most critics cluster Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway with two of her own, Jacob's Room and To the Lighthouse as examples of a technique that represents a multi-narrative form. The result of this multi-point-of-view is a novel suspending time. Not only does time suspend for the reader, it …

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