Time Lapse as Space for Contact: The Character and the City in Virginia Woolf’s Mrs Dalloway and Colum McCann’s Let the Great World Spin

Authors

  • Jelena Pršić

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.18485/bells.2017.9.10

Keywords:

Virginia Woolf, Colum McCann, Mrs Dalloway, Let the Great World Spin, time lapse, interface, body, city

Abstract

The paper deals with the motif of time lapse in Virginia Woolf’s Mrs Dalloway (1925) and Colum McCann’s Let the Great World Spin (2009) – two novels belonging to different literary and cultural traditions, yet sharing one of their main themes: the relationship between the hero and the city. Accepting Elizabeth Grosz’s term interface as best describing the relation between bodies and cities, the paper emphasises that both novels are largely based upon the body-city interface and aims to prove that they both have specific instances of temporal interruption, which serves as a spatial body-city interrelation. The focus is on two most illustrative scenes: the aeroplane scene in Mrs Dalloway and the tightropewalking scene in Let the Great World Spin.

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Published

2017-11-11

How to Cite

Pršić, J. (2017). Time Lapse as Space for Contact: The Character and the City in Virginia Woolf’s Mrs Dalloway and Colum McCann’s Let the Great World Spin. Belgrade English Language and Literature Studies, 9(1), 145–159. https://doi.org/10.18485/bells.2017.9.10

Issue

Vol. 9 No. 1 (2017): BELLS - volume 9

Section

LITERARY STUDIES

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