This book offers an interpretative key to Virginia Woolf's visual and spatial strategies by
investigating their nature role and function. The author examines long-debated theoretical and
critical issues with their philosophical implications as well as Woolf's commitment to
contemporary aesthetic theories and practices. The analytical core of the book is introduced by
a historical survey of the interart relationship and significant critical theories with a
focus on the context of Modernism. The author makes use of three investigative tools:
descriptive visuality the widely debated notion of spatial form and cognitive visuality. The
cognitive and remedial value of Woolf's visual and spatial strategies is demonstrated through
an inter-textual analysis of To the Lighthouse The Waves and Between the Acts (with
cross-references to Woolf's short stories and Jacob's Room). The development of Woolf's
literary output is read in the light of a quest for unity a formal attempt to restore parts to
wholeness and to rescue Being from Nothingness.
