THE WOOLF – CUNNINGHAM LITERARY TRAJECTORY. FEMINIZATION OF TIME
THE WOOLF – CUNNINGHAM LITERARY TRAJECTORY. FEMINIZATION OF TIME

Summary/Abstract: "Time plays a paramount role in both Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway and Michael Cunningham’s The Hours and it becomes a landmark of their inter-relatedness. What is more, both literary works use the concept of time in a specific way: both of them present one apparently “ordinary day” (Cunningham 1998:163,154) in the life of the characters. Cunningham even underlines the present concept of “an ordinary day” in a 2006 interview, at the Prague Writers’ Festival: “Virginia Woolf had written this sort of epic story about an ordinary day in the life an ordinary person named Clarissa Dalloway […] ah, I thought: Oh, I wanna do that!” (Cunningham, Prague Writers’ Festival, interview transcript [online]). "[...]

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