Версии на литературен перипатетизъм в романа на модернизма
Versions of Literary Peripatetic in Modernist Novels

Author(s): Cleo Protohristova
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Studies of Literature, Comparative Study of Literature, Philology, Theory of Literature, British Literature
Published by: Софийски университет »Св. Климент Охридски«
Keywords: literary peripatetic; modernist novel; James Joyce; Virginia Woolf
Summary/Abstract: It is generally acknowledged that the fundamental anthropological modus of walking once transformed from a necessary and indispensable human activity into a matter of individual choice, emerged as ideology and was simultaneously appropriated into the realm of „the fictive and the imaginary“ (in W. Iser’s terminology), which brought about the conceptualization of the literary peripatetic. Meanwhile, attributed to that same modern ideology was an ancient legacy traced back to Aristotle’s school of philosophy. The paper is concerned with the re-actualization of the peripapetic in Modernism – that is to say, with the conceptual, cultural, and textual aspects ofwalking, represented in modernist novels, evaluated in the perspective of the alternating historical, ideological, aesthetic, philosophical, and poetical contexts, that construct the complex narrative rationalizing the interconnectedness between walking and thinking, and walking and writing.

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