Narrative and Visual Arts in Virginia Woolf's London Writings

ISBN-13: 9783639280821 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 340 str.

Tzu Yu Allison Lin

Opis

This book is for people who are interested in literature, especially Virginia Woolfs writing and the visual arts. The reader can see how visual arts work in words, particularly writings about the city of London. With the inspiration of fine arts, Woolfs writings show a creative path, which is unique for her own. The idea of androgyny shows the transformation from binary oppositions to hybrid textuality. This illustrates the way which Woolf uses the aesthetics of the Bloomsbury Group in writing. Woolfs flâneuse shows the androgynous dual vision in _Jacobs Room_. William Jamess conception of psychology helps the reader to see Woolfs halo metaphor. Woolf criticises the Victorian aesthetics of Julia Camerons photography, developing the Post- Impressionist female gaze to show emotion, feeling and thought. Woolfs London narratives show a transformation of style from Impressionism to Post- Impressionism, as emotions of the female gaze can subvert the patriarchal society in Eleanors angle of vision in _The Years_.

O autorze

Dr Tzu Yu Allison LIN received her PhD from Goldsmiths, University of London. Her research interests include the relation between visual and verbal arts, writers and cities. She is Assistant Professor, Department of English Language and literature, Gaziantep University, Turkey.