English
THE MODERNIST CONCEPTION OF TIME AND THE POETICS OF CONSCIOUSNESS IN VIRGINIA WOOLF'S NOVELS
Journal
Conceptual foundations of fundamental, applied, and innovative research in the transformation of pedagogical education and upbringing
Issue
Proceedings of the international scientific and practical conference on “Conceptual foundations of fundamental, applied, and innovative research in the transformation of pedagogical education and upbringing”
Abstract
Purpose — This paper examines how the modernist reconceptualization of time is structurally enacted, rather than merely thematized, in the fiction of Virginia Woolf, and asks how this temporal poetics is bound up with the technique conventionally termed "stream of consciousness." Methodology — The study applies a qualitative, theoretically informed close-reading methodology, combining Henri Bergson's philosophical distinction between mechanical clock time and lived duration with Gérard Genette's narratological categories of order, duration, and frequency, to a purposive corpus of five Woolf novels: Jacob's Room, Mrs Dalloway, To the Lighthouse, Orlando, and The Waves. Findings — The analysis shows that Woolf's fiction consistently subordinates chronological sequence to the heterogeneous rhythms of subjective duration through three interlocking devices: the radical compression and dilation of story-time, the use of free indirect discourse to fuse narratorial and characterological perspectives, and the deployment of impersonal interludes that figure time without a perceiving consciousness. Recent scholarship (2022–2026) on embodied duration, minor narrative agents, and pandemic-era rereadings is shown to extend rather than displace this account. Originality/value — By reading the five novels together as stages in a single, increasingly radical temporal poetics, and by integrating very recent Woolf scholarship with the foundational Bergsonian and narratological framework, the paper offers an updated synthesis of a long-standing critical debate and identifies directions for further corpus-based and cognitive-narratological research on modernist temporality.
Keywords
Bergsonian duration
Virginia Woolf
free indirect discourse
interior monologue.
modernism
narrative time
stream of consciousness
Oʻzbekcha
Mazkur maqolada Virjiniya Vulf ijodida modernistik vaqt konsepsiyasining shunchaki mavzu sifatida emas, balki strukturaviy jihatdan qanday ifodalangani hamda ushbu temporal poetikaning an’anaviy ravishda “ong oqimi” deb ataladigan badiiy usul bilan qanday bog‘liqligi tadqiq etiladi. Tadqiqotda sifatli va nazariy jihatdan asoslangan yaqin o‘qish metodologiyasi qo‘llanilib, Anri Bergsonning mexanik soat vaqti hamda yashalgan davomiylik haqidagi falsafiy qarashlari Jerar Jennetning narratologik tartib, davomiylik va takrorlanish kategoriyalari bilan uyg‘unlashtiriladi. Tadqiqot uchun Virjiniya Vulfning besh romani — Jacob’s Room, Mrs Dalloway, To the Lighthouse, Orlando va The Waves tanlab olingan. Tahlil natijalari Vulf nasrida xronologik ketma-ketlik subyektiv davomiylikning turli ritmlariga uch asosiy vosita orqali bo‘ysundirilishini ko‘rsatadi: voqea vaqtining keskin siqilishi va kengaytirilishi, muallif bayoni hamda qahramon nuqtayi nazarlarini uyg‘unlashtiruvchi erkin bilvosita nutq va vaqtni idrok etuvchi ong mavjud bo‘lmagan holatda ifodalovchi impersonal intermediyalar. 2022–2026-yillardagi tana orqali idrok etiladigan davomiylik, minor narrativ agentlar va pandemiya davridagi qayta o‘qishlarga bag‘ishlangan zamonaviy tadqiqotlar mazkur yondashuvni inkor etmasdan, balki uni yanada kengaytirishi ko‘rsatiladi. Maqolaning ilmiy yangiligi besh romanni yagona va tobora radikallashib boruvchi temporal poetikaning bosqichlari sifatida birgalikda tahlil qilish, zamonaviy Vulf tadqiqotlarini Bergson falsafasi va narratologiyaning fundamental konsepsiyalari bilan uyg‘unlashtirish hamda modernistik temporallik
Bergson davomiyligi
Virjiniya Vulf
erkin bilvosita nutq
ichki monolog.
modernizm
narrativ vaqt
ong oqimi
Русский
В данной статье исследуется, каким образом модернистская концептуализация времени в творчестве Вирджинии Вулф реализуется не только на тематическом, но и на структурном уровне, а также рассматривается связь этой темпоральной поэтики с техникой, традиционно обозначаемой как «поток сознания». В исследовании применяется качественная, теоретически обоснованная методология пристального текстуального анализа, сочетающая философское различение Анри Бергсоном механического времени часов и переживаемой длительности с нарратологическими категориями порядка, длительности и частотности Жерара Женетта. В качестве целенаправленно отобранного корпуса анализируются пять романов Вирджинии Вулф: Jacob’s Room, Mrs Dalloway, To the Lighthouse, Orlando и The Waves. Результаты анализа показывают, что в прозе Вулф хронологическая последовательность систематически подчиняется неоднородным ритмам субъективной длительности посредством трёх взаимосвязанных приёмов: радикального сжатия и растяжения времени повествуемой истории, использования свободной косвенной речи для слияния нарративной и персонажной перспектив, а также введения безличных интерлюдий, репрезентирующих время вне воспринимающего сознания. Показано, что современные исследования 2022–2026 годов, посвящённые воплощённой длительности, минорным нарративным агентам и переосмыслению творчества Вулф в период пандемии, не вытесняют данную интерпретацию, а расширяют её. Научная новизна работы заключается в рассмотрении пяти романов как последовательных этапов единой, всё более радикальной темпоральной поэтики, а также в интеграции новейших исследований творчества Вулф с фундаментальными бергсоновскими и нарратологическими подходами.
Вирджиния Вулф
внутренний монолог.
длительность Бергсона
модернизм
нарративное время
поток сознания
свободная косвенная речь
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