Perception of Time in the Novels of Virginia Woolf
| Thesis title in Czech: | Vnímání času v románech Virginie Woolfové |
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| Thesis title in English: | Perception of Time in the Novels of Virginia Woolf |
| Key words: | Virginia Woolfová|modernizmus|čas|Bergson|vnímanie|dichotómia |
| English key words: | Virginia Woolf|modernism|time|Bergson|perception|dichotomy |
| Academic year of topic announcement: | 2019/2020 |
| Thesis type: | Bachelor's thesis |
| Thesis language: | angličtina |
| Department: | Department of Anglophone Literatures and Cultures (21-UALK) |
| Supervisor: | PhDr. Zdeněk Beran, Ph.D. |
| Author: | hidden - assigned and confirmed by the Study Dept. |
| Date of registration: | 13.11.2019 |
| Date of assignment: | 13.11.2019 |
| Administrator's approval: | not processed yet |
| Confirmed by Study dept. on: | 20.11.2019 |
| Date and time of defence: | 18.06.2020 00:00 |
| Date of electronic submission: | 27.05.2020 |
| Date of proceeded defence: | 18.06.2020 |
| Submitted/finalized: | committed by student and finalized |
| Opponents: | Mgr. Miroslava Horová, Ph.D. |
| Guidelines |
| The aim of this thesis is to explore the perception of time in Virginia Woolf's novels To the Lighthouse, The Waves and Mrs. Dalloway. A clear distinction between mechanical clock time and psychological inner time which can be perceived in Mrs. Dalloway will be studied and compared to another vivid contrast expressed by the segments of the day in the novel The Waves. Coexistence of the past and the present as well as the stretching and contraction of time according to the mental state of the characters can be observed in the work To the Lighthouse. The idea and understanding of time in each of these novels is unique and the thesis will attempt to discuss it in relation to important late 19th and 20th centuries philosophical theories of time, primarily those of Henri Bergson and Paul Ricoeur. In addition, the impact of time and its perception on the experience and psychological being of the characters will be analyzed as well. |
| References |
| Primary Sources:
Woolf, Virginia. Mrs. Dalloway. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009. Woolf, Virginia. The Waves. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014. Woolf, Virginia. To The Lighthouse. London: Penguin, 1992. Secondary Sources: Ardoin, Paul., et al., eds. Understanding Bergson, Understanding Modernism. New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2013. Bardon, Adrian. A Brief History of the Philosophy of Time. New York: Oxford University Press, 2013. Buivyte, Giedre, and Loreta Ulvydiene. “Embodiment of the Concept of Time in William Faulkner´s As I Lay Dying and Virginia Woolf´s to the Lighthouse.” Respectus Philologicus. 58-65, 2013 Currie, Mark. Narrative Fiction and the Philosophy of Time. Edinburg: Edinburg University Press, 2007. Flis, Emilia."The Importance of the Ordinary Moments of Being in Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway". New Horizons in English Studies. 43-50, 2016. Gillies, Mary Ann. Henri Bergson and British Modernism. Buffalo: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1996. Gualtieri, Elena. Virginia Woolf´s Essay: Sketching the Past. London: Macmillan Press, 2000. Guerlac, Suzanne. Thinking in time: an Introduction to Henri Bergson. New York: Cornell University Press, 2006. James, William. The Principles of Psychology. New York: Halt, 1890. Markosian, Ned. “Time.” The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Stanford University, September 2016.https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/fall2016/entries/time/ Ricoeur, Paul. Time and Narrative. Translated by Kathleen McLaughlin and David Pellauer. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1984. Russell, Bertrand. The Philosophy of Bergson. Cambridge: Bowes and Bowes, 1914. Riggs, Peter J., et al. “Contemporary Concepts of Time in Western Science and Philosophy.” ANU Press (2015): 47–66. JSTOR www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt183q3h5. Quigley, Megan. Modernist Fiction and Vagueness: Philosophy, Form and Language. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015. Woolf, Virginia. The Common Reader. Boston: Mariner Books, 2002. |