Mrs. Dalloway nas malhas da modernidade, do modernismo e do patriarcado

Abstract

The focus of this essay is directed to the influence of the transformations occurred along the historical process of modernity and to the resulting expression of the aesthetic manifestation of modernism in the work of the novelist Virginia Woolf with special emphasis on her 1925 novel, Mrs Dalloway. Aesthetic, social, cultural and historical questions are highlighted as well as the force exercised by the patriarchy, by the British Empire and by the wars that led the writer to give a new form to the gender novel by using the indirect interior monologue, the fragmentation and the work of the past and the memory. The emphasis is on new techniques that open up space for the exposition of the internal experiences of the characters and for a memorable number of perceptions.