INTENSITIES OF CONSCIOUSNESS DELUSION, DREAM, AND DELIRIUM IN VIRGINIA WOOLF’S MRS. DALLOWAY AND KATHERINE ANN PORTER’S “PALE HORSE, PALE RIDER”
INTENSITIES OF CONSCIOUSNESS DELUSION, DREAM, AND DELIRIUM IN VIRGINIA WOOLF’S MRS. DALLOWAY AND KATHERINE ANN PORTER’S “PALE HORSE, PALE RIDER”

Summary/Abstract: Parallels between Woolf’s novel and Porter’s novella include the Great War as both background and foreground, the intensely reflective woman character, a critique of patriarchy, and experimentation with language. Both works explore intensities of consciousness, in which a continuum from dream to delirium to delusion suggests an effacing of boundaries, including that between sanity and madness.

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