Virginia Woolf: The Novels (Analysing Texts)
By Nicholas Marsh.
Description
At the beginning of the 20th century, Virginia Woolf reacted against literary tradition, sought a new definition of fiction, applied her modern, post-Freudian outlook and radically feminist ideas to the problem of writing novels and, in so doing, helped re-define our concept of this literary form. The results can be seen in "Mrs Dalloway", "To the Lighthouse" and "The Waves", three novels of a flowing, impressionistic texture that are, at the same time, highly structured. Through detailed analysis of selected extracts from the novels, the text aims to teach the...
ISBN(s)
0333683498, 9780333683491
