The Explicator· 2026Q2
“She scarcely read a book now, except memoirs”: collective memory and fluid identity in Virginia Woolf’s Mrs Dalloway
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Virginia Woolf's Mrs Dalloway explores how collective memory, particularly through memoirs, shapes fluid individual identities, challenging traditional notions of a fixed self.
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Key points
- Mrs Dalloway examines the role of collective memory in shaping identity.
- The reading of memoirs is presented as a key method through which collective memory influences individuals.
- The novel posits that identity is fluid and continuously constructed, rather than fixed.
- This challenges traditional literary interpretations of selfhood.
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Abstract
Memory has long been recognized as a governing trope in the critical scholarship on Virginia Woolf’s Mrs Dalloway (Güneş 183; Jagose 77; Ibrahim 103; Starck 328). Scholars have generally acknowledg...
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Field: Literature and Literary Theory
Literature and Literary TheoryArts and Humanities