This chapter reports a study on students’ responses to a passage by Virginia Woolf which displays frequent shifts in viewpoint and a variety of speech and thought presentation modes. The students were asked to attribute the viewpoint in the passage and to demarcate the boundaries of individual… read more
This study examines Virginia Woolf ’s authorial revisions of the opening of Mrs
Dalloway and their implications for narrative theory. I compare passages from
the short story ‘Mrs Dalloway in Bond Street’ and the early drafts of ‘The Hours’
with the published novel and show that there is a… read more