파도: 비개인성의 미학
The Wavers: The Aesthetic of impersonality
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Virginia Woolf perfects the aesthetic of impersonality in The Waves and uses this to structure her later novels. On the content level, this aesthetic simply suggests an impersonal narrator and impersonal characters. It, however, constructs a geometric space out of the linear narrative of the novel. The novel most clearly shows all the experimental features of Woolf's modernism in the extreme: no plot, no characters, and fragmented narrative. Woolf says her novel is rather a “playpoem” written to the rhythm. The soliloquies of the characters raise up almost all the possible issues of human culture in caricature and, as usual, the novel does not provide any discernible resolutions. She gives an aesthetic resolutions, however, by juxtaposing linearly polarized opposites, such as male and female, insider and outsider, and spirit and body, in terms of cultural, social, and political distinctions. The work brings to view a moment, a perspective, in which an impersonal narrator or reader can see all these opposites within a shifting and rhythmical pattern of cultural common life. Thus, her novel can be read “consecutively” despite and because of polarized opposites that are presented. This inventive model enables her to delve into the inner consciousness of the human being with detachment. Woolf finally solves not only the problem of personality but also that of continuity.
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Virginia Woolf perfects the aesthetic of impersonality in The Waves and uses this to structure her later novels. On the content level, this aesthetic simply suggests an impersonal narrator and impersonal characters. It, however, constructs a geometric space out of the linear narrative of the novel. The novel most clearly shows all the experimental features of Woolf's modernism in the extreme: no plot, no characters, and fragmented narrative. Woolf says her novel is rather a “playpoem” written to the rhythm. The soliloquies of the characters raise up almost all the possible issues of human culture in caricature and, as usual, the novel does not provide any discernible resolutions. She gives an aesthetic resolutions, however, by juxtaposing linearly polarized opposites, such as male and female, insider and outsider, and spirit and body, in terms of cultural, social, and political distinctions. The work brings to view a moment, a perspective, in which an impersonal narrator or reader can see all these opposites within a shifting and rhythmical pattern of cultural common life. Thus, her novel can be read “consecutively” despite and because of polarized opposites that are presented. This inventive model enables her to delve into the inner consciousness of the human being with detachment. Woolf finally solves not only the problem of personality but also that of continuity.
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