‘Who knows what precipices aren’t concealed in words’. Scraps of Talk in Virginia Woolf’s Short Stories and Diaries
Conversation has an essential function in Woolf’s works. It can be considered as a sort of key word because it focuses on the fact that words, by building up architectonic forms within language, reveal and conceal, define and deceive, describe and suggest, imply and comment. The intersections betwee...
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Études britanniques contemporaines
2024
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| الوصول للمادة أونلاين: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| الملخص: | Conversation has an essential function in Woolf’s works. It can be considered as a sort of key word because it focuses on the fact that words, by building up architectonic forms within language, reveal and conceal, define and deceive, describe and suggest, imply and comment. The intersections between monologues and dialogues, impression and expression, partly emerge through Woolf’s original use of punctuation marks which emphasizes a continuity between uttered words and the silent ones inhabiting the mysterious circuits of the mind. Examples are taken from some short stories and some entries of the Diary.Woolf’s identity emerges as a continuum in which her ego is intermingled with other egos because the interchange of words does not belong only to her fictitious characters, but often takes place between them and her voice, the narrator’s voice, which describes the possible worlds created by the flights of her mind which have the extraordinary capacity of absorbing what lives around and inside her. |
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