Briti kirjandus 20.-21. sajand kordamisküsimused vastustega
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writer is 'mad' to a degree=wouldn't submit to the established conventions of sanity. The role of the
unconscious-part of the Modernist programme-in order to have one's voice heard, one has to
scream
A troubled life: born at a wrong time-no university education. Right place-a family of intellectuals.
Intellectual atmosphere. Large family, inner contradictions. Early psychological trauma, harassment
by half brother.
Bloomsberries-lively evening gatherings, convestations sparkled, discussed their own writing and
other writing, painting, love and politics. Challenged strict victorian norms: sexual freedom,
bisexual relations. Woolf's suicide: anxities, tensions underneath, liveliness of Bloomsury group.
Peculiarities of Woolf's stream of consciousness.Stream of consciousness with carefully
modulated poetic flow-moving between action and contemplation(mõtisklus, vaatlus) between
retrospect and anticipation. Problems of personal identity. Personal relationships