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The Aesthetics of Mutability in The Village in the Jungle (1913)

This paper focuses on the representation of change and mutability in Leonard Woolf’s The Village in the Jungle (1913) and the creation of an aesthetics of mutability. It suggests that the novel’s unstable state emerges out of Woolf’s understanding of the East and its people and from his perspective...

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spelling	openedition-oai:revues.org:angles_1424 https://doi.org/10.4000/angles.1424 urn:doi:10.4000/angles.1424 en https://journals.openedition.org/angles/1424 2020-07-16T02:00:00Z info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess article info:eu-repo/semantics/article urn:handle:20.500.13089/9mzy https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ The Aesthetics of Mutability in The Village in the Jungle (1913) Angles Société des Anglicistes de l'Enseignement Supérieur info:eu-repo/semantics/reference/issn/2274-2042 URI:https://journals.openedition.org/angles Haghshenas, Leila Woolf Leonard Village in the Jungle (The) Ceylan mythe mutabilité métamorphose instabilité Woolf Leonard Village in the Jungle (The) Ceylon myth mutability metamorphosis unstable This paper focuses on the representation of change and mutability in Leonard Woolf’s The Village in the Jungle (1913) and the creation of an aesthetics of mutability. It suggests that the novel’s unstable state emerges out of Woolf’s understanding of the East and its people and from his perspective on the question of the nature of humanity. Woolf seems to refuse the Conradian perception of the East as immutable and to propose instead a new and realistic vision of the orient and its people, that of a constantly moving and evolving East. The inherent instability of the jungle, it is argued here, extends to the village and its inhabitants and expresses itself through the blurring of boundaries between humans and animals, social classes and even genders. Multiple transformations and reversals in The Village in the Jungle point to the novel’s affinity for unstable states and mutable conditions. Cet article a pour objet la représentation du changement et de la mutabilité dans The Village in the Jungle (1913) de Leonard Woolf et l’invention dans le roman d’une esthétique de la mutabilité. Il émet l’hypothèse que l’état instable du roman découle d’une compréhension de l’orient et de sa population et d'une perspective concernant la nature de l’humanité qui sont propres à Woolf. Woolf semble récuser la perception conradienne d’un orient immuable, proposant à la place une vision nouvelle et réaliste de la région et de sa population : un orient en mouvement et en évolution constants. L’argument avancé est donc que l’instabilité inhérente à la jungle s’étendrait au village et à ses habitants, s’exprimant à travers le brouillage des frontières entre humains et animaux, entre classes sociales et même entre genres. Les nombreuses transformations et inversions dans The Village in the Jungle témoigneraient d’une affinité dans ce roman pour les états instables et les conditions muables.
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topic	Woolf Leonard Village in the Jungle (The) Ceylan mythe mutabilité métamorphose instabilité Woolf Leonard Village in the Jungle (The) Ceylon myth mutability metamorphosis unstable
spellingShingle	Woolf Leonard Village in the Jungle (The) Ceylan mythe mutabilité métamorphose instabilité Woolf Leonard Village in the Jungle (The) Ceylon myth mutability metamorphosis unstable Haghshenas, Leila The Aesthetics of Mutability in The Village in the Jungle (1913)
description	This paper focuses on the representation of change and mutability in Leonard Woolf’s The Village in the Jungle (1913) and the creation of an aesthetics of mutability. It suggests that the novel’s unstable state emerges out of Woolf’s understanding of the East and its people and from his perspective on the question of the nature of humanity. Woolf seems to refuse the Conradian perception of the East as immutable and to propose instead a new and realistic vision of the orient and its people, that of a constantly moving and evolving East. The inherent instability of the jungle, it is argued here, extends to the village and its inhabitants and expresses itself through the blurring of boundaries between humans and animals, social classes and even genders. Multiple transformations and reversals in The Village in the Jungle point to the novel’s affinity for unstable states and mutable conditions.
author	Haghshenas, Leila
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title	The Aesthetics of Mutability in The Village in the Jungle (1913)
title_short	The Aesthetics of Mutability in The Village in the Jungle (1913)
title_full	The Aesthetics of Mutability in The Village in the Jungle (1913)
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