Practice question · True or false
Woolf’s "Modern Fiction" argues that novelists should record an ordinary mind on an ordinary day.
Hints
- The essay states the programme these novels carry out.
- The important material is impressions rather than events.
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True
Why
True. Woolf argues that the novel should record "an ordinary mind on an ordinary day", since what matters is the incessant shower of impressions rather than the plot events a conventional novel selects. Mrs Dalloway is the programme executed.
Practise Ruptures: Proust, Joyce and Woolf
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