The Pattern behind Cotton Wool: A Short Study...

The Pattern behind Cotton Wool: A Short Study of ‗Moments of Being‘ by Virginia Woolf

Author Name : Awdhesh Kumar , Minakshi Aggrawal

ABSTRACT Virginia Woolf is one of the most prominent modern authors who influenced and revolutionized the literature, not only of their own age but of coming ages too. Her monumental work „A Room of One‟s Own‟ isstill referred to and read as a major feminist text. Virginia Woolf penned many experimental novels and not only pioneered but practiced Stream of Consciousness technique in her works. In this paper we are going to analyze and study her autobiographical essays recollected and compiled by Jeanne Schulkindas her memoir ‗Moments of Being‘ in the light of trauma studies. As I have already mentionedabove, the work was not written in its current form by the author herself rather it is a compilation of her various essays and memoir that she shared and wrote during her lifetime. These were probably not written with the purpose of publication noticing how little attention is paid to them, there are minor errors and also these are quite discreet. Most of these were published posthumously. Even the title is taken up from her most prominent autobiographical essay, ‗A Sketch of the Past‘ where this phrase (also in other works as well) Moment of being occurs repeatedly.