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Mapping the Modern Mind.
Hauptbeschreibung 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 preconceiv...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Hamburg :
Diplomica Verlag,
2012.
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- Mapping the Modern Mind: Virginia Woolf's parodic approach to the art of fiction in "Jacob's Room"; CONTENTS; 1. Introduction; 1.1 Jacob's Forum: Method and Hypothesis; 1.2 Structure of Study; 2. Modernism and the Modernist Novel; 2.1 Periodization and Terminology; 2.2 The Historic Context of Modernism; 2.2.1 The Modern Age and the Age of Anxiety; 2.2.2 The First World War and the Modernist Predicament; 2.3 Woolf's Art of Fiction; 2.3.1 The Woolfian Essay; 2.3.2 The Aesthetic Movement and the Art of Fiction; 3. The Making of a Writer; 3.1 The Critical Reception of Woolf and Jacob's Room.
- 3.2 The Sceptical Sensibility of Virginia Stephen3.3 The Hogarth Press and the Conception of Jacob's Room; 3.4 Bloomsbury and the Cambridge Apostles; 4. The Comic Spirit; 4.1 The 'Comic Spirit' Revisited: The Value of Laughter and the AestheticTheme; 4.2 The Comic Spirit and the Modernist Predicament; 5. Frontiers of Fiction: The Narrative Form of Jacob's Room; 5.1 Symbolism, Literary Allusion and Impassioned Prose; 5.1.1 Symbols and the Allusive Practice of Jacob's Room; 5.1.2 Jacob's Forum and the Epistemic Motif; 5.1.3 Vignettes and the Socratic Construction of Jacob's Room.
- 5.2 Role of the Narrator and Character in Jacob's Forum5.2.1 The Self-Conscious Narrator and the Epistemic Motif; 5.2.2 A Gallery of Observers; 5.2.3 The Characterization of Jacob Flanders; 5.3 The New Biography and the Eminent Edwardians; 5.3.1 Woolf's Theory of Biography; 5.3.2 Digression: The Art of Biography; 5.3.3 Seabrook is Dead: Debunking the Eminent Edwardians; 5.4 Painting, Poetry and the Modernist Novel; 5.4.1 The Psychological Novel and the Rivalry of the Arts; 5.4.2 Impressionism in Jacob's Forum; 5.4.3 Cubism and the Cubist Novel; 6. Conclusion; Deutsche Zusammenfassung.
- EinleitungGliederung und Disposition; Der sozial-geschichtliche Hintergrund des Modernismus; Modernismus, das Woolf'sche Essay und die Romantheorie; Die Rezeption der Werke Woolfs; Die Biographie einer lyrisch-skeptischen Autorin; 'The Comic Spirit' oder Humor in Jacob's Forum; Die Erzählstruktur des Romans Jacob's Room; Bibliography; Author's Profile.