World Conference on Educational Sciences: New Trends and Issues in Educational Sciences
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Abstract
Virginia
Woolf was one of the most distinctive writers of the English Literature
using the stream of consciousness technique masterfully. The stream of
consciousness technique is one of the most challenging narrative
techniques in writing. In both reading and teaching, this technique
requires a lot of study. This study focuses on the teaching of the
stream of consciousness technique taking Virginia Woolf's technical
artistry in her use of sentence structure and vocabulary. Putting
special emphasis on Virginia Woolf's technical artistry while dealing
with this challenging technique, we hope that it will be easier to
understand Woolf's style better. The thematic analysis of her works is
not enough. In this study, we dealt with Virginia Woolf's three novels;
Mrs Dalloway, To the Lighthouse, and The Waves. These are Virginia
Woolf's well-known novels, which are considered to show her mastery in
the use of stream of consciousness technique in an effective way. First,
it is possible to say that in each of the books mentioned above; a
different way of the stream of consciousness technique is used, which
makes it peculiar to Virginia Woolf. Despite the fact that she deals
with each work differently, there are some specific points common in all
three of these books. Although the works are in the form of a prose,
they are closer to poetry, especially To the Lighthouse and The Waves.
Her vocabulary choice and the sentence structure causes the reader to
feel that he is reading a poem in the form of prose. This is related to
Woolf's passion to find a new narration style. She combines poetry and
prose so successfully that her works are both tempting and hard to read.
This study is an examination of some of the techniques Virginia Woolf
used in order to create poetry in the form of prose. The structures of
balance and sound as well as the use of parenthesis are analyzed in this
study. This work increases our understanding of Woolf's stream of
consciousness technique while we are walking along the corridors of her
mind.
Keywords
- The stream of consciousness technique;
- poetic;
- rhythm;
- musicality;
- structures of sound;
- structures of balance;
- parenthesis
