MODERNIST FEATURES OF V. WOOLF’S NOVELS

Abstract

The paper studies the features of modernist novels by English writer Virgina Woolf. The focus is on the novels “To the lighthouse” and “Jacob՚ s Room”, each of which represents a different stage in the creation of the author. However, conceptually general rules have survived enabling analytically trace the dynamics of the poetics. When analyzing the poetics of Woolf s novels it is inevitable to appeal to the literary movement “stream of consciousness” which occupies a central place in the literature of modernism. Elements of this trend are obvious in the studied novels; the absence of casual relationship, “dissection” of the storyline, “blurring” of boundaries of categories of time and space. The purpose of the writer is to compare the private with the universal, the moment with the eternity, overcome linguistic conventions as just it may bring to the knowledge of basics of entity.