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Mapping the Modern Mind: Virginia Woolf's parodic approach to the art of fiction in ''Jacob's Room'' - Softcover
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In this study the author conducts a close reading of Virginia Woolf's first 'experimental' novel, Jacob's Room (1922). Her reading is based on the fundamental premise that the novel is an exploration of fictional form, rather than an exposition of any preconceived idea. Jacob's Room is an essentially modernist text, and is characterised by extensive genre-mixing typical of the art of fiction in the early 20th century. Throughout her study the author analyses the extent to which the novel transgress the 'boundaries' of the novelistic genre. She explores the generic interface between the novel and those genres which are deemed to be innate to Virginia Woolf's sensibility, i.e. the journalistic essay, biography and impressionist painting. The premise of this study leads the author to read the novel on two levels of significance: On the narrative, 'surface' level of the novel, Woolf constructs the tragic life of a promising young Englishman, Jacob Flanders, who dies in the First World War. Simultaneously, on the metafictional level of significance, Woolf, through her garrulous narrator, mocks and evaluates the actions of her characters, experimenting with various points of view in an attempt to define the character of her protagonist. Jacob's 'room' is thus conceived as a 'mental space' in which a modern writer's mind is 'mapped'. The central aesthetic question which is debated in this room or forum relates to the essential art of modern fiction in general and the efficiency of characterisation in fiction in particular. It is argued that Virginia Woolf probes into the epistemic question of the essence of modern man and, in an attempt to capture the essence of her protagonist, speculates on the corresponding literary question how, and to what extent, the 'soul' of man can to be represented in fiction. The author uses this generic approach to the novel as a broad structuring principle for her study of Jacob's Room. After discussing the socio-political context of mod
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- PublisherDiplomica Verlag
- Publication date2012
- ISBN 10 3842878559
- ISBN 13 9783842878556
- BindingPaperback
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages128
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Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -In this study the author conducts a close reading of Virginia Woolf s first experimental novel, Jacob s Room (1922). Her reading is based on the fundamental premise that the novel is an exploration of fictional form, rather than an exposition of any preconceived idea. Jacob s Room is an essentially modernist text, and is characterised by extensive genre-mixing typical of the art of fiction in the early 20th century. Throughout her study the author analyses the extent to which the novel transgress the boundaries of the novelistic genre. She explores the generic interface between the novel and those genres which are deemed to be innate to Virginia Woolf s sensibility, i.e. the journalistic essay, biography and impressionist painting. The premise of this study leads the author to read the novel on two levels of significance: On the narrative, surface level of the novel, Woolf constructs the tragic life of a promising young Englishman, Jacob Flanders, who dies in the First World War. Simultaneously, on the metafictional level of significance, Woolf, through her garrulous narrator, mocks and evaluates the actions of her characters, experimenting with various points of view in an attempt to define the character of her protagonist. Jacob s room is thus conceived as a mental space in which a modern writer s mind is mapped . The central aesthetic question which is debated in this room or forum relates to the essential art of modern fiction in general and the efficiency of characterisation in fiction in particular. It is argued that Virginia Woolf probes into the epistemic question of the essence of modern man and, in an attempt to capture the essence of her protagonist, speculates on the corresponding literary question how, and to what extent, the soul of man can to be represented in fiction. The author uses this generic approach to the novel as a broad structuring principle for her study of Jacob s Room. After discussing the socio-political context of modernism in the early 20th century, including the impact of the First World War on modernist writing, she focuses her study on those aspects of Woolf s fiction which are deemed fundamental to the narrative strategy in Jacob s Room, i.e. the role and nature of Woolf s humour within the context of modernism; the nodes or clusters of metaphors and symbols recurring in the text; the role of the narrator as toastmaster of the debate on character and fiction in Jacob s Forum; the extent to which the novel parodies the new biography of the early twentieth century; and the extent to which Woolf transvaluates the tools of impressionist painting into modernist fiction. 128 pp. Englisch. Seller Inventory # 9783842878556
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