Modernist novel in light of psychological personality concepts of 1890–1920 (Virginia Woolf’s Orlando)

DROZHZHINA A.E.

Master of Philology, independent researcher, Rostov-on-Don

Abstract

The theoretical views on the human personality named in the article scientifically substantiate some ideas about human nature, which had already been gradually developed and described in fiction, but have flourished in it only in the modernist prose. Some of them, such as natural plurality of a human person, subjective nature of time, power of the unconscious over an individual, endeavour to discover one’s self and others, manifest themselves in the reality and composition of the novel Orlando. They allow Virginia Woolf to portray a complex character of the “new biography” in her novel, depict whimsical years of his / her adolescence, fluidity of his / her identity, and dynamics of his / her spiritual life.

Keywords

Virginia Woolf; Orlando; biofiction; English modernist literature; Sigmund Freud; Karl Jung; Otto Rank; Henri Bergson; William James.

DOI: 10.31249/lit/2023.01.10

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