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ENGLISH TEST
The concept of time is very thoroughly analyzed in literature,both ancient and
contemporary,both English and italian
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But the total lack of a
chronological structure will only be reached in modern times with Modernist authors
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This is achieved through the disruption of the chronological order of events which reflects the
irrational workings of the human psyche and its subjective perception of time
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BERGSON’S THEORY OF TIME
According to Bergson there are two types of time: historical time and psychological time
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Psychological time is internal,subjective and is measured by the relative emotional intensity
of a moment
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This
philosophy is clearly in opposition to the previous positivism of the first centuries of the
Victorian Era
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EINSTEIN’S THEORY OF TIME
This theory was also supported by science
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According to Einstein's theory of relativity, the amount of time an
event takes is dependent upon the observer's frame of reference; in other words, time is
relative, a concept which agrees with the modern writer's view of time
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Right now I will focus on the latter front
TIME IN MODERNIST WRITERS
Time in the modern novel is, as stated previously, subjective
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The lack of a chronological order allows the writers to often blend past and present together
which ties with the goal of analyzing the characters’ psyche
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So what it is possible to gather here is that time flows in uninterrupted succession; yet the
individual carried along by time is not restricted to one dimension; through the use of
memory, he can travel back and exist in the past before being swept along toward the future
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Whereas, in the past centuries, great change was almost
unknown during the comparatively short life of a man, the modern man's life span has
doubled; and the rate of change has accelerated, so that he is confronted again and again
with the reality of a changing world
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Indeed Eliot’s focuses a lot on the contrasts and the similarities between people of the past
and of the present
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Jung’s collective unconscious,the foundation of Eliot’s mythical method, provided support for
the modern writer's thoughts about cohesion between individuals living in the present and
those of the historical past
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Time seems to be in slow motion in the writings of the modernists
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Through the
narration of past present and future Joyce attempted to record the complete thoughts of his
characters
TIME IN VIRGINIA WOLF
Virginia Woolf does not actually use the stream of consciousness method as it was
employed by Joyce
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She emphasizes the moment of recall, in a very
Proustian way, which is why it is in her work,more than in those of the other authors, that the
moment of epiphany can clearly be seen
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Heidegger
concentrates on "existential or historical time : time as the span of my life, rather than the
indefinitely stretching medium measurable by clocks or planetary motions
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A great responsibility is implied because the individual is made aware of his
potentialities during his allotment of time
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It does
not move in the conventional manner from past through present to future, but out of the
future, through the past and then to the present
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The main example is the sea in To the Lighthouse
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The sea gives man a proper perspective on his life,
but it also serves Virginia Woolf as representative of the way in which time flows

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