The Mind against the Hours: Bergsonian Conception of Time in Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf.

Authors

  • Paulo Lorca Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.7764/ESLA.62185

Keywords:

Virginia Woolf, Henri Bergson, time, duration, subjectivity, homogeneous time

Abstract

The article presents an analysis of Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf in the light of Henri Bergson’s theory of time, as presented specifically in Time and Free Will and Matter and Memory. The discussion focuses around the modernist concern about the struggle between the time of the mind and the time of the clock, and remarks on the importance of Bergson's theory to elucidate the actual resolution of this tension within the narrative

Author Biography

Paulo Lorca, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile

Paulo Lorca is a Bachelor in English Literature and Linguistics from Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. His main interests lie within Literature and Modernity, Literary Landscapes and Critical Theory. He
also works as a freelance illustrator, having among his published works Victor Hugo's Dieu (2012), Clive Barker's Alphabet (2013), José Luis Flores' Las Bestias (2014) and Hans Christian Andersen's The Little
Mermaid (2013).

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Published

2023-06-22

Issue

No. 10: January 2016

Section

ARTICLES

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