Reflections and reverberations: Images of glass and sound in the fiction of Virginia Woolf.

Title: Reflections and reverberations: Images of glass and sound in the fiction of Virginia Woolf.
Identifier: AAI9000709
identifier: 9000709
Creator: Kurtz, Marilyn.
Contributor: Adviser: Marvin Magalaner
Date: 1989
Language: English
Publisher: City University of New York.
Subject: Literature, English
Abstract: Virginia Woolf uses images of glass and sound in her fiction in a variety of ways. Mirrors and windows, for example, are used as distancing devices, barriers and, paradoxically, as unifiers for epiphanic revelations. Various truths are revealed through these images, representing modern epistemology and ontology in their fragmented complexities.;Sounds are used in Virginia Woolf's earlier works to recall characters from trance-like reveries--which may represent a death-wish--to the vitality of everyday life. In the later works, conversely, the sounds themselves resonate with an aura of death in the form of hollow, repetitive echoes or fragmented, disruptive discourse.;There is a great deal of "watching" and "seeing" in the fiction which ultimately becomes visionary in a final, apocalyptic sense where earlier vital life-impulses give way to the sounds and sight of shattering glass--a metaphor for the frenzied, war-torn, modern world and disjointed human condition.;This dissertation will look at the progression of images and their implications.
Type: dissertation
Source: PQT Legacy CUNY.xlsx
degree: Ph.D.

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