Çıtak 1 Erkan ÇITAK Emine ŞENTÜRK İDE 354 British Novel II 28 June 2020 Postmodernist Aspects of Sexing the Cherry and Mrs. Dalloway The age of Modernism in literature turned into marked through a revolt against tradition and a desire for a thorough change. Modernist poets and writers looked for novel ways where in to create their own literature. Virginia Woolf, as considered one of the excessive modernists, became no exception: She refused the norms and conventions of Victorian fiction, specially that of formal realism. Both Winterson’s and Woolf’snovel also includues famous subject matters of time, identity, magic, space, sexual ambiguity, identity, myth, realism and of course gender. Throughout this paper the topic of postmodernism and the wayWintersonand Woolf have portrayed this all in the novel through the usage of modernism will be discussed. With its experimental style and beautiful musings on life and loss, Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway is not only a complex and compelling modernist text, but also one of the most important works of the British literary canon. In ‘Modern Fiction’ she defines her factor of what's real, and criticizes classical realism for enforcing the use of ‘a plot’, amongst other traditional techniques and gadgets that are incapable of depicting reality because it is. In Mrs.Dalloway, she turns faraway from the traditional linear narrative, and instead uses thesubject
