%0 Book
%A Savina Stevanato
%D 2012
%C Oxford, United Kingdom
%I Peter Lang Verlag
%@ 9783035302660
%T Visuality and Spatiality in Virginia Woolf’s Fiction
%R 10.3726/978-3-0353-0266-0
%U https://www.peterlang.com/document/1052032
%X This book offers an interpretative key to Virginia Woolf’s visual and spatial strategies by investigating their nature, role and function. The author examines long-debated theoretical and critical issues with their philosophical implications, as well as Woolf’s commitment to contemporary aesthetic theories and practices. The analytical core of the book is introduced by a historical survey of the interart relationship and significant critical theories, with a focus on the context of Modernism. The author makes use of three investigative tools: descriptive visuality, the widely debated notion of spatial form, and cognitive visuality. The cognitive and remedial value of Woolf’s visual and spatial strategies is demonstrated through an inter-textual analysis of To the Lighthouse, The Waves and Between the Acts (with cross-references to Woolf’s short stories and Jacob’s Room). The development of Woolf’s literary output is read in the light of a quest for unity, a formal attempt to restore parts to wholeness and to rescue Being from Nothingness.
%K The verbal and visual arts in the modernist context, Analysing the nature and development of thematized visuality and spatiality, Spatiality as a remedy for Nothingness and Becoming, Metaphor as an emblem of seeing and spatial form
%G English