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Virginia Woolf in Mrs Dalloway (1925) primarily focuses on Clarissa Dalloway's multifaceted identity. To label and accordingly analyse Virginia Woolf's Mrs Dalloway as solely an epitome of modernist novel would be reductionistic and would not reveal its multidimensionality and multifacetedness; therefore, multidisciplinarity, a poststructural approach, was adopted to open up the existing disciplines to new perspectives, to shed more light on the problematic of subjectivity from different disciplines simultaneously. The book attempts to offer a vantage point of standing above and seeing the...

In A Room of One's Own (1929), Virginia Woolf subversively urges that "we think back through our mothers if we are women" (132); this radical belief which was uncommon in Woolf's time turned out to be her lifelong commitment in her literary life, and which formulated a new form of intellectualism. This book explores Woolf's radical argument in locating subjectivity in relation to desire: the desire to return to the lost mother, whose absence is the source and initiator of all speech and writing. In my exploration of the ways in which desire informs textuality, I will focus on Woolf's Mrs...