Memory in Virginia Woolf´s Work

Abstract

This work deals with the role of memories in Virginia Woolf's work, specifically in Mrs Dalloway and To the Lighthouse. The main aim of the paper is to analyze the role and the use of memory in the chosen novels. The theoretical part focuses on the modernist conception of time, memory and its influence on human mind, and the techniques modernist writers used for the experimenting with time and memory. The second part of the paper analyzes the methods and techniques Virginia Woolf used in the novels, the contrast between public and private time and it tries to find out what influence the use of memory has on the form of the narrator and on the characters.