Virginia Woolfs Jacobs Room - Jacob Flanders, Many Things to Many Rea

Virginia Woolfs Jacobs style - Jacob Flanders, Many Things to Many ReadersListless is the air in an empty room, in effect(p) swelling the curtain the flowers in the jar shift. One fibre in the wicker arm- chair creaks, though no one sits there. - Jacobs Room The family 1922 marks the beginning of High Modernism with the publications of T. S. Eliots The Wasteland, James Joyces Ulysses, and Virginia Woolfs Jacobs Room. Woolfs novel, only her third, is not generally afforded the iconic worship and critical praise so oft attached to those works of her most famous male contemporaries. Jacobs Room is rarely suggested as one of Woolfs best fiction the novel has not generated the analogous encomia as her recognized masterpieces Mrs. Dalloway, Between the Acts, and The Waves. But Jacobs Room is indeed a revolutionary work in its original technical mastery, its mournful historicity, and its resonant tone. The novel is Woolfs manifesto in fiction of her unique enterprise to give charact er beyond the one-to-one mimetic method of conventional blue(a) and Edwardian realism. Uniquely self-conscious and conscious of self, Woolf was attracted to exploring new modes of characterization, fictional consciousness, and epistemology. She is oddly interested in exploring the nature, communication, and limits of fictional knowledge. Woolfs idiosyncratic mode of characterization in Jacobs Room is the epistemological complement in fiction to Eliots formula for unrestrained expression in poetry, the objective correlative. While Eliots description of the ideal exquisite proficiency tries to be concise and formulaic, a direct mimetic correspondence, Woolfs technique is symbolic and metaphoric, collective, indefinite, and infinitely more ... ...Merry. Virginia Woolfs Between the Acts Fascism in the Heart of England. Virginia Woolf Miscellanies proceeding of the First Annual Conference on Virginia Woolf. Ed. by Mark Hussey and Vara Neverow-Turk. Lanham, MD Pace University Press, 1992. pp. 188-191. Ruddick, Sara. Private Brother, Public World. in the buff Feminist Essays on Virginia Woolf. Ed. by Jane Marcus. Lincoln University of Nebraska Press, 1981. pp. 185-215. Schug, Charles. The Romantic Genesis of the Modern Novel. Pittsburgh University of Pittsburgh Press, 1979. Woolf, Virginia. The Essays of Virginia Woolf. Volume III. 1919-1924. Ed. by Andrew McNeillie. New York Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1988. -----. Jacobs Room. New York The Penguin Group, 1998. -----. The Letters of Virginia Woolf. Volume II. 1912-1922. Ed. by Nigel Nicholson. New York Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1976.