Okay, I know this is heresy but is any one else finding Woolf's narration of Mrs. Dalloway somewhat like following the train of thought of someone with ADD? I can envision (somewhat) her narration working better on film than on the printed page.
Anybody up for a study group for the last paper and final?
My apologies if this is incoherent, but it's very difficult to type with a cat on my lap determined to divert me from typing by headbutting my hands.
Susan L.
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Ha ha ha, I was just thinking today how no film could ever capture it! It's all internal monologue, so unless you did a constant (tiring) narration of the character's voices, it would lose almost the entire effect :(
ReplyDeleteI really like it. It mimics the way I think in some ways. I flit and float from one thought to another, make references to other memories, suddenly call my attention to something else, recall some mode of thought I'd dropped at a moment of interruption... I suppose I assumed that everyone thought that way! It is a bit difficult to get used to, though. I find it much easier than To the Lighthouse, though, so I'm thankful.
I'm willing to meet for a study group (I think it really helped last time!), but I need to make sure I set aside time for other classes... My poor Geography class is being ignored most pitifully.
I think the technical term is "stream of conscience". It's funny how fine the line is between this and writing that is just ungrammatical.
ReplyDeleteWatch the use of commas in this book. It's fantastic. A sentence can go on for pages without having anything technically wrong with it.
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