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The Influence of Virginia Woolf on Contemporary British Fiction in selected works by Pat Barker, Toby Litt and Ian McEwan
Kocianová, Tereza ; Chalupský, Petr (advisor) ; Ženíšek, Jakub (referee)
The aim of this bachelor thesis is to focus on the phenomenon of Virginia Woolf's influence on contemporary fiction. It attempts to demonstrate the frequent stylistic, thematic and personal imprint of Virginia Woolf in recently published works of British authors. Particular examples are drawn from Pat Barker's novels Life Class (2007) and Toby's Room (2012), Toby Litt's Finding Myself (2003) and Ian McEwan's Saturday (2005). The thesis concentrates on contextualising the allusions found in the four selected novels with the factual information from Woolf's life and her social, cultural and professional milieu. The literary modernist strategies, narrative techniques and characteristic themes employed in the works by Woolf are compared with those used in the selected novels. Key words: Virginia Woolf, Modernism, Bloomsbury Group, Allusion, Intertextuality, Themes, Narrative strategies
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