Assess the strengths and limitations of formalist, psychoanalytic, and postcolonial critical frameworks for interpreting narrative technique and political meaning in Modernist British novels. Using close readings of Virginia Woolf’s Mrs Dalloway and To the Lighthouse, evaluate how each approach explains techniques (stream of consciousness, focalization, temporality, free indirect discourse) and political dimensions (gender, class, empire), identify their evidentiary and theoretical limits, and compare their explanatory power with reference to primary passages and relevant secondary scholarship.