William Wordsworth's 'Double A Wareness' of Memory in Virginia Woolf's MRS Dalloway

Bu çalışma, modern İngiliz yazarlarından Virginia Woolf'un Mrs Dalloway adlı romanındaki romantizm konusunu ele almaktadır. Woolf, roman yazma sanatına yeni bir yaklaşım getirmesine rağmen edebiyat geleneğinin tarihsel gelişim süreci içinde geniş ve değişen perspektifin bir parçası olduğunu savunur. Bundan dolayı, Woolf'un modern romancılığı, devam edegelen edebiyat geleneginden ayrılmayıp bu gelenegin yeniden biçimlendirilerek geliştirilmesi olarak görülebilir. Woolf, bu yeni biçimlendirme içinde Romantiklerden, özellikle de William Wordsworth'dan etkilenmiştir. Woolf, o'nu tamamıyle kopya etmez, fakat hayat ile ilgili estetik görüşünden etkilenerek realite anlayışını, toplumsal değişikliklerin getirdiği bunalımlardan (parçalanma) kendi iç dünyasında kuracağı bir huzur ortamıyla (bütünlük) kurtulacağı tezi üzerine kurar. Woolf'un kahramanları da iç dünyalarındaki bu çatışmalar sebebiyle sürekli olarak kimlik arayışı içindedirler. Woolf bu zıt görüşü ifade edebilmek için şiirsel bir anlatım (poetik-lirik) geliştirir. Dolayısıyla, Woolf, modernist kimlik görüşünü ifade etmek için Wordsworth'un kullandığı 'memory'i (hatıra) Mrs Dalloway adlı romanında bir araç olarak kullanır ve böylece yeni bir kimlik ve anlatım üslubu geliştirir. Bu yeni üslup ile geleneksel romandaki objektif anlatım tarzını bırakarak olay örgüsü bir sonuca ulaşmaksızın geçmiş ile gelecek arasında devamlı gidip gelir. Bu yeni anlatım biçiminde kahramanların belirlenmiş, sabit bir karakterleri ve kimlikleri yoktur. Bu anlayış içinde karakterlerin kimlikleri hakkında bir yargıya varmak mümkün degildir.

William Wordsworth'un 'Hatıranın Çift Yönlü Algılaması' Kavramının Virgina Woolf'un MRS Dalloway Adlı Romanındaki Kullanımı

This article deals with Romanticism in modernist British writer Virginia Woolf's novel, Mrs Dalloway. Although her works are experimental and new, they are part of a wider and developing perspective in the historical process of literary tradition, so that they cannot be viewed as completely breaking away from literary tradition, but rather as a reworking and redevelopment in its evolution. In her reworking of the traditional novel, this paper may suggest that Woolf made it "new" by returning to the Romantics, particularly to Wordsworth. By this claim, this paper does not mean that Woolf copied Wordsworth exactly, but was profoundly and pervasively influenced by his aesthetic views, especially in relation to her understanding of life as "consciousness". By returning to the Romantics, Woolf develops her sense of "reality" as both fragmented and whole, and of the "self" as fragmented but desiring and imagining unity. Hence she not only strove to construct a poetical or lyrical novel to express that contradictory view but also used her fiction to explore the mystery of the subjective consciousness as the dominant modernist view. In order to express her perception of modernist identity, Woolf used memory as a device in Mrs Dalloway and thus developed a new way of narration as well as a new view of human identity. By means of this new method, she left the objective narration of the traditional novel, and thus meaning or the view of identity in Woolf's late fiction is not static but undecided, unfinished and mysterious.

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