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Abstract
Following and exploring the concept of character in modernist fiction essentially takes one to the complex and turbulent world of literary modernism, a world which entails a highly problematic issues and extremely sophisticated literary, critical, philosophical and psychological issues and concerns. This thesis explores the world of modernist fiction in an attempt to concretize the transformations and innovations that modernism has brought about to the representation of character as represented in the fiction of Virginia Woolf (1882 – 1941), one of the great and most influential modernist novelists. The thesis, thus, tackles one of the difficult and widely controversial aspects of Virginia Woolf’s fiction, namely characterization. Actually, the charge of the failure of characterization has remained lurking in the main stream of Woolf’s criticism. It is not even an exaggeration to say that the belief in Woolf’s inability to structure a successful an impressive image of character has become a classical trend in Wool’s criticism. This study is, therefore, initiated out of the researcher’s strong belief that Woolf does not fail in characterization. The main premise upon which the study is based is that this claimed failure of Woolf’s characterization is the outcome of the lack of understanding the nature of Woolf’s modernist art and the inability to comprehend Woolf’s philosophy and the modernist strategies applied in her representation of characters. The search, then, is for the philosophy that makes this seeming failure a part of the complexity and force of Woolf’s fiction and a manifestation of the modernist strategies she applies in the representation of character. To prove the reliability of this core premise of the study, the researcher seeks to answer some important questions related to Woolf’s art and vision; Through a critical reading and analysis of Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway (1925),and To the Lighthouse, the researcher endeavors to prove the authenticity and reliability of the core premise of the study.