A Perfect Combination Of Psychology And Reality

As an excellent English novelist and essayist, Virginia Woolf endeavors to innovate in the form of fiction. Her efforts contribute a lot to the reforming of modernist fiction. Until now, she is still a popular topic of researchers abroad and domestic scholars. This paper aims to discuss the narrative strategy of Woolf's fiction.The paper attempts to apply the theories of New Historicism, Structuralism, Psychoanalysis and Duration to study Woolf's fiction in five aspects. The research starts with the dissimilarity between physical time and mental time. By comparing the differences between two kinds of time concepts, the author finds that mental time is largely prolonged in the stream of conscious novel. What's more important, the paper places special emphasis on the inclination of psychological realism. In her fiction Woolf perfectly combines psychology and reality by vividly exploring people's inner world to reflect the real society. Lastly, the author comes to the conclusion that the special application of two times, the frequent transition of the narrative perspective, the building of mental image, poetic tendency of creation and the inclination of psychological realism are the main connotations of Woolf's narrative strategy. The paper attempts to present Woolf's narrative strategy from new perspectives. As a pioneer of the stream of consciousness novelists, Virginia Woolf fully initiates her innovation and contributes to the development of modernist fictions.