«The Whole World is a Work of Art…» Virginia Woolf's novel «The Waves» (episode I)
| Autor: | K. I. Mudrak |
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| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
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| Zdroj: | From Baroque to Postmodernism: a Journal of literary Studies. 1 |
| ISSN: | 7232-3078 2312-3036 |
| Popis: | The article is devoted to the analysis of "The Waves" (the first episode), where Virginia Woolf, as she admitted, has found her "own style" and tries to bring together the word, visual image, prose, poetry and drama. The artistic concept of "The Waves" is complex, the author rejects a coherent narrative, it is substituted by the impressions of an external world, which are occurring in the consciousness of the coeval characters. Thus the dynamic mosaic of the world is created. The unfolding of the visual narration is amplified with the choir of the characters’ voices, who are communicating constantly not with each other but themselves only. The personages of "The Waves" are inseparable from the artist’s creative imagination whose consciousness is acting, playing with the reader. Therefore the characters are not the only ones who dominate over the recollections of the past moments but the author herself does. And if for the previous ones these memories become the woven threads of personal fate, then for the other – it is the "fabric" she needs to fulfill the pattern of her artwork.Woolf’s speculations about the genre of "The Waves" are under view as well as the scholars’ opinions who read "The Waves" as a metaphorical text, author’s myth of women creativity. Woolf dramatizes the narration organizing the design of ‘The Waves’ as a mirror system where the image of reality is being lost in its endless reflections. It is stated that the aesthetic multilayer structure of "The Waves" has just half-opened by the critics, as a lot of philologists feel unusual "trans-genre" nature of the novel itself and correlate it with the loose genre definitions such as ‘symphonic poem’ or "a series of rhapsodies". |
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