Virginia Woolf and the Aesthetics of Vision

• Main Author: Olk, Claudia
• Format: eBook Book
• Language: English
• Published: Germany De Gruyter 2014; De Gruyter, Inc; De Gruyter Mouton
• Edition: 1
• Series: Buchreihe der Anglia / Anglia Book Series
• Subjects: 1882-1941; Aesthetics; aesthetics, visualization, modernity; Criticism and interpretation; English and Anglo-Saxon literatures; LITERARY CRITICISM; LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Woolf, Virginia; Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941 > Aesthetics; Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941 > Criticism and interpretation; aesthetics, visualization, modernity
• ISBN: 9783110340235; 3110340232; 9783110340228; 3110340224; 3110393514; 9783110393514; 3110553910; 9783110553918
• DOI: 10.1515/9783110340235

The category of vision is significant for Modernist texts as well as for the unfolding discourse of Modernism itself. Within the general Modernist fascination with the artistic and experimental possibilities of vision and perception this study looks at Virginia Woolf's novels and her critical w...

Table of Contents:

• Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Modernism and vision -- Aesthetic vision and visual culture -- Woolf studies and vision -- 1 Aesthetic Vision and Experience -- 1.1 The semantics of seeing in Woolf's essays -- 1.2 Immediacy and abstraction in The Voyage Out -- 1.3 The transformation of vision: To the Lighthouse and the immanence of art -- 1.3.1 Immanence and ideal in Woolf's reading of Platonism -- 1.3.2 The dynamics of the image in To the Lighthouse -- 1.3.3 Light, love and perfection: Platonic eros and the dynamics of narrative in To the Lighthouse -- 2 Modalities of the Gaze: Windows, Mirrors, and the Veil -- 2.1 The window and the novel as narrative space -- 2.1.1 The mediated gaze in The Voyage Out -- 2.1.2 The multiplicity of symbolic form in Jacob's Room -- 2.1.3 The dialectics of perspective: windows in Mrs. Dalloway -- 2.2 "The veil of words" and the poetics of the diaphanous -- 2.2.1 The diaphanous in Modernist aesthetics -- 2.2.2 Twilight and fog: vague and fading vision -- 2.2.3 Seeing through tears -- 2.3 The looking glass and the reflection of difference -- 2.3.1 Beyond the looking glass: the surface and "the other side of life" -- 2.3.2 Water and glass in Between the Acts -- 3 The Temporality of Aesthetic Vision -- 3.1 Modernist temporalities of the view -- 3.2 Beginnings: the sketch and the scene -- 3.3 Jacob's Room and the space of time -- 3.4 "Was that the end?" - Between the Acts and the paradox of vision in time -- 3.4.1 Vision and silence -- 3.4.2 The rhythm of vision in time -- 4 The Poetry of Aesthetic Vision in The Waves -- 4.1 Visibility and form in the Interludes -- 4.2 The "little language" and the private view -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Texts and Editions -- Secondary Sources
• Acknowledgements --
• Contents --
• List of Abbreviations --
• 4 The Poetry of Aesthetic Vision in The Waves --
• 2 Modalities of the Gaze: Windows, Mirrors, and the Veil --
• Frontmatter --
• 3 The Temporality of Aesthetic Vision --
• 1 Aesthetic Vision and Experience --
• Conclusion --
• Introduction --
• Bibliography