ABSTRACT
This chapter outlines the main concepts, questions and issues in the theoretical and critical debates on the text, intertextuality and the rhizomatic. Morrison’s critical revision of Woolf can be considered a form of tunnelling. In order to make these statements, one needs to throw out of the window the binary oppositions: original vs. copy; originality vs. secondariness; centre vs. margin; major vs. minor. Woolf has much to say about intertextuality within the self and within the text, and indeed practises it in her writing. Mrs. Dalloway takes place on a June day in 1923, in a post-war London that wants to move on, as if temporality is just linear progression. The day is punctuated by Big Ben striking the hour – in each one of the novel’s twelve sections – but marking time as a unidirectional arrow, made possible by the standardization of time in modernity, with imperial London time or Greenwich time at the centre or the Prime Meridian.
