Studies of Virginia Woolf's experimental prose tend to follow the modernist paradigms which privilege spatial form and transcendence at the expense of narrative temporality. Studies of Woolf's historical interests generally look to the Victorian perspective of her father, Leslie Stephen, as they focus upon the novels written in realistic prose. Recent theoretical developments by Dominick LaCapra and Fredric Jameson provide new ways to consider time, narrative and history together in Woolf's fiction, and to make new connections between her historical and experimental impulses. / LaCapra provides a framework which illustrates Woolf's contextualizing strategies, the ways in which she weaves factual and experiential subject matter into fictional discourse. These strategies can be seen most clearly in the project which began as The Pargiters and was finally published as The Years. Jameson performs a new shape of narrative which offers a language in which to discuss Woolf's last novel, Between the Acts. / The interpretations prompted by LaCapra and Jameson question the applicability of a poetry-based aesthetics to the high modern novel as they indicate new directions for historicizing modernism and its art. Among these new directions is a belated appreciation of Woolf's innovations in fictional historiography. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 53-07, Section: A, page: 2385. / Major Professors: S. E. Gontarski; Janet Burroway. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Florida State University, 1992.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:fsu.edu/oai:fsu.digital.flvc.org:fsu_76686 |
| Contributors | Stephens, Rebecca., Florida State University |
| Source Sets | Florida State University |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Text |
| Format | 267 p. |
| Rights | On campus use only. |
| Relation | Dissertation Abstracts International |
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