The Modernist Party

At this interactive talk, Gwenda and Violet, both PhD students in English modernist studies, will give a brief sharing on their current related research: Gwenda on ‘Wandering Thoughts of a Crammed Mind’ in Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway Party stories, and Violet on ‘Death at the Party’ in Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway and Katherine Mansfield’s The Garden Party. Afterwards we will hold discussions on various interesting aspects of the modernist party: the exposed sense of self, the difficulty of connection, a collective consciousness, and draw on other kinds of modernist parties from writers like Katherine Mansfield and T. S. Eliot.