Virginia Woolf and the Aesthetics of Vision

Claudia Olk

Published by De Gruyter 2014

Virginia Woolf and the Aesthetics of Vision

Claudia Olk

Volume 45 in the series Buchreihe der Anglia / Anglia Book Series

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110340235

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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.

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Claudia Olk, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Acknowledgements Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
List of Abbreviations Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
Introduction Publicly Available Download PDF	1
1 Aesthetic Vision and Experience Publicly Available Download PDF	18
2 Modalities of the Gaze: Windows, Mirrors, and the Veil Publicly Available Download PDF	54
3 The Temporality of Aesthetic Vision Publicly Available Download PDF	109
4 The Poetry of Aesthetic Vision in The Waves Publicly Available Download PDF	155
Conclusion Publicly Available Download PDF	184
Bibliography Publicly Available Download PDF	189

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter
Pages
- Front matter: 10
- Main content: 202
Keywords: aesthetics; visualization; modernity

eBook

Published: August 19, 2014
ISBN: 9783110340235

Hardcover

Published: August 25, 2014
ISBN: 9783110340228

Paperback

Published: June 26, 2017
ISBN: 9783110553918