Death and Melancholy as Recurring Motifs in Virginia Woolf’s Selected Novels
Śmierć i melancholia jako powracające motywy w wybranych powieściach Virginii Woolf

Summary/Abstract: The idea behind the paper is to analyze, on the basis of some selected novels by Virginia Woolf, how death and the feeling of melancholy transmute into her writings anticipating her suicidal death. The analysis is aimed at exploring the subject and its development in Woolf’s literary oeuvre, with special regard to Voyage Out, Jacob’s Room, Mrs Dalloway, To the Lighthouse, The Years and The Waves. The books under examination are not explored chronologically as the paper intends to delve into thematic links between the novels and the conceptual patterns that they share rather than focus on the linear and diachronic development of the concept in her writings.

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