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Jacob’s Room: Virginia Woolf and Walter Pater
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Jacob’s Room is a self-reflexive novel on how to write without using the conventional forms of novel-writing. In this work, she exhibits a double narrative:the life of Jacob is narrated and, at the same time, there is a story of how to represent Jacob in her writing. In Jacob’s story, Jacob feels depressed because of his overwhelming sense of belatedness in front of the old civilization and fails to achieve his own proper self-identity. The narrator, however,utilizes her own sense of belatedness to her advantage and perfects a new modern novel in the work. Woolf thematizes her aesthetic theory in the novel and problematizes the realistic notion of reality. She suggests Paterian impressions as an alternative. Her impressions do not represent a simple shift from an external reality to an inner and subjective reality. Nor is her new form experimental because it rejects having a traditional plot and character. Her new reality, “life itself,”includes the ordering and organizing process of the mind and, thus, she has to incorporate it in representing her character. What is called objective reality to her is an empty room whose “wall” or “envelop” is already “composed” by the cultural classification system. Woolfian imaginative writer can always find a pattern in the chaotic and atomic flood of impressions, which are impersonal in the first place. The task of modern writer is not to find a new subject matter and invent a new form. It is to create Jacob’s Room, a geometric space in which we can make connections between opposites and contradictions, such as reality and fiction, life and death.
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Jacob’s Room is a self-reflexive novel on how to write without using the conventional forms of novel-writing. In this work, she exhibits a double narrative:the life of Jacob is narrated and, at the same time, there is a story of how to represent Jacob in her writing. In Jacob’s story, Jacob feels depressed because of his overwhelming sense of belatedness in front of the old civilization and fails to achieve his own proper self-identity. The narrator, however,utilizes her own sense of belatedness to her advantage and perfects a new modern novel in the work. Woolf thematizes her aesthetic theory in the novel and problematizes the realistic notion of reality. She suggests Paterian impressions as an alternative. Her impressions do not represent a simple shift from an external reality to an inner and subjective reality. Nor is her new form experimental because it rejects having a traditional plot and character. Her new reality, “life itself,”includes the ordering and organizing process of the mind and, thus, she has to incorporate it in representing her character. What is called objective reality to her is an empty room whose “wall” or “envelop” is already “composed” by the cultural classification system. Woolfian imaginative writer can always find a pattern in the chaotic and atomic flood of impressions, which are impersonal in the first place. The task of modern writer is not to find a new subject matter and invent a new form. It is to create Jacob’s Room, a geometric space in which we can make connections between opposites and contradictions, such as reality and fiction, life and death.
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