Work Classification Layer
Compare Works
Pick two or more works to set their attribute fingerprints, dimension-by-dimension passages, and shared school embodiments side by side. Especially useful for author-stage comparisons (Wittgenstein early vs late) and for setting a single tradition's foundational texts against each other.
Mrs Dalloway
A single day in post-war London — Woolf's 1925 modernist masterpiece, the stream of consciousness shaping the form
Attribute Fingerprint
Rows where works disagree are highlighted in gold. The full ontology grid is shown.
| Attribute | Mrs Dalloway (Mid (the first major modernist novel of Woolf's maturity)) |
|---|---|
| Time · Extent | Infinite |
| Time · Ontological Status | Relational |
| Time · Grain | Continuous |
| Time · Freedom | Non-Deterministic |
| Time · Traversability | Linear |
| Time · Dimensionality | One |
| Time · Direction | Uni-directional |
| Space · Extent | Infinite |
| Space · Ontological Status | Substantival |
| Space · Curvature | Flat |
| Space · Dimensionality | Three |
| Space · Locality | Local |
| Matter · Extent | Infinite |
| Matter · Ontological Status | Substantival |
| Matter · Conservation | Conserved |
| Matter · Dimensionality | Three |
| Matter · Locality | Local |
| Observer · Time Instance | Multiple |
| Observer · Space Instance | Multiple |
| Observer · Knowledge Extent | Partial |
| Observer · Knowledge Retainment | Total |
| Observer · Physicality | Embodied |
| Observer · Agency | Both |
| Observer · Number | Plural |
| Observer · Metaphysical Agency | None |
| Observer · Moral Authority | Experience |
| Observer · Theological Method | — |
| Energy · Extent | Infinite |
| Energy · Ontological Status | Substantival |
| Energy · Conservation | Conserved |
| Energy · Dispersibility | Irreversible |
| Information · Ontological Status | Substantival |
| Information · Cosmic Conservation | Conserved |
| Information · Personal Conservation | Conserved |
| Information · Granularity | Continuous |
Dimension-by-Dimension Evidence
What each work's passages reveal about its stance on each of the six dimensions.
Time
Mrs Dalloway
The compressed time of a single day, structured by the striking of Big Ben.
Space
Mrs Dalloway
The geographic space of post-war London, particularly Westminster and Regent's Park.
Matter
Mrs Dalloway
The embodied lives of the multiple characters; the physical city of London.
Observer
Mrs Dalloway
The multiple stream-of-consciousness observers — Clarissa, Septimus, Peter, others. No metaphysical framework imposed.
Energy
Mrs Dalloway
The psychological energies of memory, anticipation, social performance, hidden despair.
Information
Mrs Dalloway
The richly textured consciousness of each character preserved through the stream-of-consciousness narrative.
Internal Tensions
Where each work's argument pulls against itself.
Mrs Dalloway's reception has been continuously expanding — as a modernist masterpiece, as a feminist text, as a meditation on shell shock and post-war recovery, as a study in sexuality (the novel's treatment of Clarissa's relation to Sally Seton). The Septimus-Clarissa structural pairing has been continuously analysed. Woolf's 1941 suicide inflects subsequent readings of Septimus's suicide.