Form as Compensation for Life: Fictive Patterns in Virgina Woolf's Novels
Published by Camden House,, Columbia, 1998
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Hardback. 199pp. A close reading analysis of Woolf's fiction that, whilst not ignoring the author's biography, seeks to prioritise the text and language again. Draws heavily on reader response and linguistic theories and is of interest to those examining the theories of Iser, Fish, Saussaure etc as well as to those interested in close textual analysis of Woolf's work. Attractively bound in a sea-green cloth with gilt titles. Near fine copy.
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- Title
- Form as Compensation for Life: Fictive Patterns in Virgina Woolf's Novels
- Author
- Holmesland, Oddvar
- Publisher
- Camden House,, Columbia
- Publication year
- 1998
- Binding
- Hardback
- ISBN 10
- 1571131477
- ISBN 13
- 9781571131478
Reading a novel by Virginia Woolf involves an element of `double reflexiveness': first, the reader's interaction with Woolf's words and what they describe, and second, the interaction of these words with the world Woolf perceivedand attempted to represent. Oddvar Holmesland takes this paradox and shows that it is not the invention of recent critics but something of which Woolf herself is well aware. In a number of analyses of Woolf's major works - MrsDalloway, To the Lighthouse, The Waves - he explores the ambiguity that Woolf's reader must work through in order to reach the insights and rewards that her fiction offers.
Professor ODDVAR HOLMESLAND is Professor of English at the University of Tromso, Norway.
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