The Crises of the Character and Its Transformation in Modern British Fiction;

Postcolonialism provides a new perspective for the interpretation and comprehension of British fiction with contents concerning colonialism and colonies.

At the beginning of the stylistic development,the English novels in the 18th century inherited early literature achievement-stereotype and displayed the trend of individualization,which set the basis of arts in characterization for the later development.

It examines the contrast between the literary techniques adopted by Virginia Woolf in her stream of consciousness novels and those used in traditional novels in regard to plot, followed by analyses of the literary outlook and philosophical convictions Woolf tries to put across through the technical innovation.

It examines the contrast between the literary techniques adopted by Virginia Woolf in her stream of consciousness novels and those used in traditional novels in regard to character and characterization, followed by analyses of her outlook of the self and life she tries to put across through the technical innovation in.

From traditional writing technique to modern one, Claude Simon made a bold probe and experiment by replacing timeliness characteristic of traditional novel with the extensity and simultaneity employed in painting and replacing the plot description found in traditional novel with a mobility created by means used in film.