La temporalité et la perception dans Mrs Dalloway

📋 Plan du Cours

1. Forster, John Maynard Keynes, Lytton Strachey, and Vanessa Bell
2. Turner’s character description and demeanor
3. Structure of the novel Mrs Dalloway
4. First polyphonic movement in the novel
5. Peter Walsh’s walk
6. Narration, Stream of Consciousness, and the Experience of Time
7. Narratorial presence underpinning immediacy
8. The self as unknowable to self and others
9. The hours as a structural framework in Mrs Dalloway
10. A single moment containing a biographical turning point
11. The intersection of individual perception and nation/institutions
12. The flow of hours as an aesthetic unit despite death

📖 1. Forster, John Maynard Keynes, Lytton Strachey, and Vanessa Bell

🔑 Notions clés & Définitions

• Her mother : Julia Stephen née Jackson à Pre-Raphaelite model + from an Anglo-Indian “artistic” family from French descent (like Sally Seton in Mrs Dalloway).
• Bloomsbury Group : An intellectual circle including Forster, Keynes, Strachey, and Vanessa Bell, known for rejecting patriotism, war, imperialism, and nationalism, and engaging in discussions on art and morality.
• Virginia Woolf : Virginia Woolf par$cipates fully in this movement.
• Jacob’s Room : The origins of Mrs Dalloway The origins of Mrs Dalloway

📝 Points essentiels