Clarissa's Party in the House of the Sleeping Beauties

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dc.identifier	ECF_article_10756
dc.title	Clarissa's Party in the House of the Sleeping Beauties. A Study of Memory and Time in Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway and Kawabata's The House of the Sleeping Beauties
dc.contributor.author	Ibrahim Usama
dc.publisher	Edizioni Ca’ Foscari - Venice University Press, Fondazione Università Ca’ Foscari
dc.type	Research Article
dc.language.iso	en
dc.identifier.uri	http://edizionicafoscari.it/en/edizioni4/riviste/english-literature/2022/1/clarissas-party-in-the-house-of-the-sleeping-beaut/
dc.description.abstract	On the verge of death and in the Autumn of their lives, Clarissa Dalloway, in Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway, and Eguchi Yoshio, in Kawabata’s The House of the Sleeping Beauties, find themselves facing the existential realization that life has been stripped out of them. The past is all that is left for them, but the present is all they have. They are haunted by the ticking of the cosmic clock, so they resort to their memories to shun death. The apparition of death, nevertheless, reveals itself for both protagonists at the zenith of their celebration of life, and this existential realization is carried out within a Modernist framework in which the narrative style gives meaning to the content of both works.
dc.relation.ispartof	English Literature
dc.relation.ispartof	Vol. 9 \| December 2022
dc.issued	2023-04-13
dc.dateAccepted	2023-01-30
dc.dateSubmitted	2022-10-13
dc.identifier.issn
dc.identifier.eissn	2420-823X
dc.rights	Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.identifier.doi	10.30687/EL/2420-823X/2022/01/006
dc.peer-review	yes
dc.subject	Dalloway
dc.subject	House of the Sleeping Beauties
dc.subject	Kawabata
dc.subject	Memory
dc.subject	Modernism
dc.subject	Mrs
dc.subject	Neoperceptionists
dc.subject	Recollection
dc.subject	Time
dc.subject	Virginia Woolf

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A Study of Memory and Time in Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway and Kawabata's The House of the Sleeping Beauties

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abstract

On the verge of death and in the Autumn of their lives, Clarissa Dalloway, in Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway, and Eguchi Yoshio, in Kawabata’s The House of the Sleeping Beauties, find themselves facing the existential realization that life has been stripped out of them. The past is all that is left for them, but the present is all they have. They are haunted by the ticking of the cosmic clock, so they resort to their memories to shun death. The apparition of death, nevertheless, reveals itself for both protagonists at the zenith of their celebration of life, and this existential realization is carried out within a Modernist framework in which the narrative style gives meaning to the content of both works.

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April 13, 2023

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Jan. 30, 2023

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Oct. 13, 2022

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Keywords: Memory • Virginia Woolf • Modernism • Dalloway • Recollection • Time • Kawabata • House of the Sleeping Beauties • Neoperceptionists • Mrs

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