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VIRGINIA WOOLF AND THE AESTHETICS OF VISION - C...

The category of vision is significant for Modernist texts as well as for the unfolding
discourse of Modernism itself. Within the general Modernist fascination with the artistic and
experimental possibilities of vision and perception this study looks at Virginia Woolf's novels
and her critical writings and examines the relation between visuality and aesthetics. An
aesthetics of vision  as this study argues  becomes a productive principle of narrative. The
visual is not only pertinent to Woolf's processes of composition  but her works create a kind
of vision that is proper to the text itself - a vision that reflects on the experience of
seeing and renegotiates the relation between the reader and the text. The study investigates
key dimensions of aesthetic vision. It addresses vision in the context of theories of aesthetic
experience and identifies a semantics of seeing. It analyses functions of symbolic materiality
in the presentation of boundaries of perception  modes of temporality and poetic
potentialities. In exploring the connections between vision and language  it seeks to provide
new perspectives for a reassessment of what occurs in Modernism's relation to vision.

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