Abstract
This thesis examines two works of modernist fiction (A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce and To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf) through the lens of the vivid, yet under-explored psychological framework of narrative psychology in order to spotlight the psychological tensions at the heart of the Künstlerroman genre.
Status
Undergraduate
Department
English
College
Honors Tutorial College
Campus
Athens
Faculty Mentor
Snyder, Carey; Bianco, Joseph
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Detecting the “Flickerings of that Innermost Flame”: A Narrative Psychology Approach to the Artist-Novels of Virginia Woolf and James Joyce
This thesis examines two works of modernist fiction (A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce and To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf) through the lens of the vivid, yet under-explored psychological framework of narrative psychology in order to spotlight the psychological tensions at the heart of the Künstlerroman genre.