Pani Dalloway Virginii Woolf i jej postmodernistyczna i neomodernistyczna progenitura
Virginia Woolf’s Mrs Dalloway and Its Postmodern and Neomodern Progeny

Summary/Abstract: The following paper is devoted to Mrs Dalloway, Virginia Woolf’s seminal novel, and both implicit and explicit contemporary rewritings it inspired. It focuses mainly on the narrative, stylistic patterns and thematic concerns that so far have been discussed only fragmentarily and offers detailed overview of the originating texts in terms of features of Woolfian style that they deconstruct and construct anew. By pointing out the nature of intricate narrative, stylistic and thematic interdependencies between Mrs Dalloway and contemporary literary texts the hereby paper shows how these generically versatile texts amplify and recontextualize whole gamut of Woolfian concerns and which elements are subject to allusion, imitation or reinterpretation. The analyses conducted in this article lead to the conclusion that despite its complex narrative patterns, which may pose a challenge to a contemporary reader, Mrs Dalloway has inspired a proliferation of neo- and postmodern texts which imitate and reinterpret Woolfi an narrative and stylistic patterns as well as suppressed notions of sexual identity, among other thematic concerns. Also, rewriting Mrs Dalloway within postmodern and neomodern paradigm, contemporary texts prove that modernist form did not become used, but continues to inspire both high and popular literature in the new spatial-temporal, cultural, and historical context.

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