"Virginia Woolf and our Knowledge of the External World"

In "Virginia Woolf and our Knowledge of the External World", Jaako Hintikka writes that "Attempts have been made to turn Virginia Woolf into a mystic who denied empiricism and the reality of the everyday world; and there perhaps are materials for such an interpretation in her works. But it omits one of the most characteristic features of [her] attitude, her keen eye for material and social detail" (11). Determine the ways, if any, in which any TWO of Woolf's short stories (The Mark on the Wall, An Unwritten Novel, The Shooting Party) balance the mystical with the material and social. Compose an essay and analyse this statement, making use of Hintikka's article "Virginia Woolf and our Knowledge of the External World" and Woolf's own essay "Modern Fiction". This question requires you to do a number of things: - Examine Hintikka's essay and discuss the influence of the Bloomsbury philosophers G.E Moore and, especially Bertrand Russell, on Virginia Woolf. - Discuss the role of mysticism, "material and social detail", in Woolf's work, using Hintikka's article and Woolf's essay "Modern Fiction to help you. - Analyse whether there is/isn't a balance between these elements in your two chosen stories.