DOI: 10.5176/2251-3566_L319.473
Authors: Mr. Yan Kai
Abstract: Virginia Woolf is one of the typical modernist writers, holding a unique view in treating time and space in her literary creation. Kew Gardens is one of her early experimental pieces that showcase how she attempts to reflect flitting human consciousness. In the story she intentionally highlights psychological time and space, while discarding the traditional limitations imposed by physical time and space. The ingenious application of “moments of importance” and “juxtaposition of space” help to free the writing to explore the human mind, whereas the mild interference of physical time and space during this exploration only serves to combine the psychological and the physical, the internal and the external dialectically together. The modernist concept of time and space, which strongly emphasizes the mentality with a minor reference to the actuality, can be perceived in this case study.
Keywords: Virginia Woolf; Kew Gardens; Time; Space
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