"The Hours"

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This paper briefly looks at how Michael Cunningham, in a tribute to Woolf, took her story and modified her modern style with his own unique writing in "The Hours." It outlines the similarities between the two novels and looks at the modernizations and changes made by Cunningham.

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"Cunningham played with Woolf's writing styles in his novel, intensifying her clever style. For example, Woolf had an unusual method of making her characters experience backward launches of memories, which were usually sparked by some type of image. In addition, she would jumble time and place to show her readers the reality of human consciousness and experience. Cunningham mimicked her style in "The Hours" yet added to the excitement with his postmodern styles. Therefore, while Woolf's plot was simple, Cunningham's was decidedly complex."

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