Narrative Structures in Virginia Woolf's Shorter Fiction

• Název práce v češtině: Narativní struktury v krátké próze Virginie Woolf
• Název v anglickém jazyce: Narrative Structures in Virginia Woolf's Shorter Fiction
• Klíčová slova: Virginia Woolf, James Joyce, Anton P. Čechov, modernismus, povídka, krátká próza, modernistická povídka, narativní struktury, naratologie, “Mrs Dalloway in Bond Street” (Paní Dallowayová na Bond Street), “Nové šaty”, “Blue & Green” (Modrá a zelená), “Nenapsaný román”, Strašidelný dům, Paní Dallowayová, ellipsis, intertextualita, epistemologie, báseň v próze,metafikce, esej
• Klíčová slova anglicky: Virginia Woolf, James Joyce, Anton P. Chekhov, modernism, the short story, short fiction, the modernist short story, narrative structures, narratology, “Mrs Dalloway in Bond Street”, “The New Dress”, “Blue & Green”, “An Unwritten Novel”, A Haunted House, Mrs Dalloway, ellipsis, intertextuality, epistemology, verbal painting, prose poem, metafiction, essay
• Akademický rok vypsání: 2011/2012
• Typ práce: bakalářská práce
• Jazyk práce: angličtina
• Ústav: Ústav anglofonních literatur a kultur (21-UALK)
• Vedoucí / školitel: doc. Clare Wallace, M.A., Ph.D.
• Řešitel: skrytý - zadáno a potvrzeno stud. odd.
• Datum přihlášení: 21.05.2012
• Datum zadání: 21.05.2012
• Schválení administrátorem: zatím neschvalováno
• Datum potvrzení stud. oddělením: 31.10.2012
• Datum a čas obhajoby: 10.09.2013 08:30
• Datum odevzdání elektronické podoby: 08.08.2013
• Datum proběhlé obhajoby: 10.09.2013
• Odevzdaná/finalizovaná: odevzdaná studentem a finalizovaná
• Oponenti: PhDr. Soňa Nováková, CSc.

Zásady pro vypracování

In his foreword to the 1943 edition of The Haunted House, Leonard Woolf claims that “it was [Virginia Woolf's] custom, whenever an idea for [a short story] occurred to her, to sketch it out in a very rough form and then to put it away in a drawer. Later, if an editor asked her for a short story, and she felt in the mood to write one (which was not frequent), she would take a sketch out of her drawer and rewrite it, sometimes a great many times.” This would imply that Woolf's attitude towards the short story was, like certain readers', rather disparaging. Christine Reynier has, however, denied this assumption by proving that Woolf regarded the short story as unsubordinated to the novel, and as a genre in its own right.
In my BA thesis I would like to examine the distinguishing narrative structures in Woolf's shorter fiction, claiming its sketchy nature to be innovative rather than incomplete. The seven short stories included in Mrs. Dalloway's Party, a collection published posthumously by the Hogarth Press and edited by Stella McNichol, will be the focus of my analysis. All being related to Mrs Dalloway and exploring the theme of parties and society, these stories form an exceptionally consistent part of Woolf's shorter fiction. They will be examined in relation to Woolf's opinions on the purpose of fiction and short story writing and with regard to the Modernist views on truthful representation. The question of dialogue, character, point of view and perception of time will be of particular interest. I will consult relevant critical texts, such as Genette's Narrative Discourse, for a terminological and theoretical framework for my analysis.

Seznam odborné literatury

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Benzel, Kathryn N. Hoberman, Ruth. Trespassing Boundaries: Virginia Woolf's Short Fiction. Gordonsville: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004.
Drewery, Claire. Modernist Short Fiction by Women. Farnham: Ashgate, 2011.
Genette, Gérard. Narrative Discourse: An Essay in Method. New York: Cornell University Press, 1983.
Head, Dominic. The Modernist Short Story. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009.
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Woolf, Virginia. Mrs. Dalloway. New York: Oxford University Press, 2009.
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Woolf, Virginia. The Common Reader. London: The Hogarth Press, 1929.