... of sudden vivid images, in the eyes of the reader becoming a colourful and rich impressionist painting). The authors of "Gender of Narration - write: "She abandoned the realist techniques which were the characteristic of her predecessors by structuring her work according to the style in contemporary painting. A break with realism and a challenge to the centrality of the human subject were essential in her ... own work. The Post-Impressionist movement which affected the contemporary painters with whom she was in contact also influenced her conception of the novel."" This effect is connec...

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... in his own life. Most of the time he will learn a lesson, realize some truth, or derive some meaning through the events of the novel. Despite this common thread throughout contemporary fiction, both Virginia Woolf and Michael Cunningham choose to add a twist to this common theme in modern literature. In Mrs. Dalloway Virginia Woolf chooses to have the successful character, Septimus ... , kill himself, while in The Hours by Michael Cunningham, Richard, one of the successful characters of the novel, kills himself too. It is a very strange twist that both authors have added to modern litera...

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• Grade Level: High School