The article examines the structure of the artistic picture of the world as it is revealed in Virginia Woolf’s short stories, along with the structure of the main concepts. The article also reveals the significative, denotative and figurative components of the concept «mirror». Other means of rendering the mirror image have been studied with a strong focus on their text organization impact, their ability to convey the author’s message and the modernism’s ideas.
concept, artistic picture of the world, consciousness, metaphoric model
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