The Notion of Time in Virginia Woolf's "Orlando"

Abstract

This research paper aims at studying one of the most prominent literary texts as a modernist product. Significantly, this study attempts to analyse the novel of "Orlando" by the British writer, Virginia Woolf . The study focuses on the notion of time in the novel and how it is represented by the author . It also explores the stream of consciousness as a narrative technique that expresses the essence of peculiar aspects of such prominent modernist writer. This dissertation is divided into three chapters. The starting part covers the tendency of modernism in British literature. The middle part introduces the writer, Virginia Woolf, and shows her contributions in universalizing that tendency of literature. As for the last part, it is devoted to the investigation of the way time is represented in the novel "Orlando".