Virginia Woolf and the aesthetics of vision / Claudia Olk.

Format:

Book

Thesis/Dissertation

Author/Creator:

Olk, Claudia, author.

Series:

Buchreihe der Anglia ; Volume 45.

Buchreihe der ANGLIA = ANGLIA Book Series, 0340-5435 ; Volume 45

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941--Aesthetics.

Woolf, Virginia.

Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941--Criticism and interpretation.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (212 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berlin, [Germany] ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : De Gruyter, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 writings and examines the relation between visuality and aesthetics. An aesthetics of vision, as this study argues, becomes a productive principle of narrative. The visual is not only pertinent to Woolf's processes of composition, but her works create a kind of vision that is proper to the text itself - a vision that reflects on the experience of seeing and renegotiates the relation between the reader and the text. The study investigates key dimensions of aesthetic vision. It addresses vision in the context of theories of aesthetic experience and identifies a semantics of seeing. It analyses functions of symbolic materiality in the presentation of boundaries of perception, modes of temporality and poetic potentialities. In exploring the connections between vision and language, it seeks to provide new perspectives for a reassessment of what occurs in Modernism's relation to vision.

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 writings and examines the relation between visuality and aesthetics. An aesthetics of vision, as this study argues, becomes a productive principle of narrative. The visual is not only pertinent to Woolf's processes of composition, but her works create a kind of vision that is proper to the text itself - a vision that reflects on the experience of seeing and renegotiates the relation between the reader and the text. The study investigates key dimensions of aesthetic vision. It addresses vision in the context of theories of aesthetic experience and identifies a semantics of seeing. It analyses functions of symbolic materiality in the presentation of boundaries of perception, modes of temporality and poetic potentialities. In exploring the connections between vision and language, it seeks to provide new perspectives for a reassessment of what occurs in Modernism's relation to vision.

Contents:

Front matter

Acknowledgements

Contents

List of Abbreviations

Introduction

1 Aesthetic Vision and Experience

2 Modalities of the Gaze: Windows, Mirrors, and the Veil

3 The Temporality of Aesthetic Vision

4 The Poetry of Aesthetic Vision in The Waves

Conclusion

Bibliography

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Habil.

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9783110553918

3110553910

9783110393514

3110393514

9783110340235

3110340232

OCLC:

890070962