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Author Rooyen, Lindy van

Title Mapping the Modern Mind
Published Hamburg : Diplomica Verlag, 2012

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Contents 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
Summary 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 preconceived idea. Jacob's Room is an essentially modernist text, and is characterised by extensive genre-mixing typical of the art of fiction in the early 20th century. Throughout her study the author analyses the extent to which the novel transgress the 'boundaries' of the novelistic genre. She explores the generic interface b
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Subject Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941. Jacob's room.
Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941 -- Criticism and interpretation
SUBJECT Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941 fast
Jacob's room (Woolf, Virginia) fast
Subject Fiction -- Technique.
English literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism
English literature
Fiction -- Technique
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9783842828551
3842828551