VIRGINIA WOOLF - A BRIEF GLANCE ON HER LIFE, WORKS AND STYLE.

There are various psychological as well as literary techniques used by Virginia Woolf in her novels. This post will help to understand them in brief. STREAM OF CONSCIOUSNESS The novels based on stream of consciousness are the peculiar product of the 20th century. The rise of this art form on the eve of the World War I marks an epoch in the history of English novel. This particular kind of novel is also called the novel of subjectivity or the psychological novel.  The phrase Stream of Consciousness was first used by William James in his Principles of Psychology 1890 , to denote the chaotic flow impressions and sensations through the human consciousness, Dorothy Richardson in England, James Joyce in Ireland, and Proust in France. The chief architects of the novel of subjectivity, and Virginia Woolf is the novelist who imparted from and discipline to it and thus made it in popularly accepted art – form. Woolf is not the founder of the stream of consciousness technique, but