🎯 Operational Objectives

By the end of this lecture, learners will be able to:

  1. Recognise and recall the biographical influences on James Joyce and Virginia Woolf, especially in relation to the development of modernist fiction and psychological realism.
  2. Explain the narrative principles of stream-of-consciousness and illustrate how this technique challenges linear storytelling and external realism.
  3. Interpret the portrayal of inner consciousness and memory in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and Mrs Dalloway, highlighting the interplay between personal identity and social context.
  4. Analyse selected passages to reveal the linguistic and structural choices used to represent mental fragmentation, temporal fluidity, and introspective depth.
  5. Critically evaluate how Joyce and Woolf reconstruct the individual’s relationship with time, trauma, and meaning in a modernising world.
  6. Create an original piece or critical reflection using modernist techniques to explore the subjective experience of time, memory, or identity.