Form as Compensation for Life - Fictive Patterns in Virginia Woolf`s Novels

Reading a novel by Virginia Woolf involves an element of double reflexiveness: first, the readers interaction with Woolfs words and what they describe, and second, the interaction of these words with the world Woolf perceived and attempted to represent. Oddvar Holmesland takes this paradox and shows that it is not the invention of recent critics but something of which Woolf herself is well aware. In a number of analyses of Woolfs major works - Mrs Dalloway, To the Lighthouse, The Waves - he explores the ambiguity that Woolfs reader must work through in order to reach the insights and rewards that her fiction offers. Professor ODDVAR HOLMESLAND is Professor of English at the University of Tromso, Norway.

Product details

• Authors: Oddvar Holmesland
• Publisher: Camden House
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.01.1998
• No. of pages: 216
• Dimensions: 159 mm x 227 mm x 22 mm
• Weight: 474 g
• Series: Studies in English and America
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies