One historical moment when war was dramatically represented in literature is Modernism and one among the many modernist masterpieces about war is undoubtedly Mrs Dalloway (1925) by Virginia Woolf. The aim of this essay is to show how influential that novel and its author have been on postcolonial writers, such as J.M. Coetzee and M. Ondaatje.

"Whose War? The Influence of Virginia Woolf's Mrs Dalloway on some Postcolonial Writers"

CONCILIO, Carmelina
2013-01-01

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One historical moment when war was dramatically represented in literature is Modernism and one among the many modernist masterpieces about war is undoubtedly Mrs Dalloway (1925) by Virginia Woolf. The aim of this essay is to show how influential that novel and its author have been on postcolonial writers, such as J.M. Coetzee and M. Ondaatje.
2013
La guerra e le armi nella letteratura in inglese del Novecento
Trauben - Università degli Studi di Torino
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Virginia Woolf; War; Ondaatje; Coetzee
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