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The Waves, first published in 1931 is the most experimental novel of Virginia Woolf. Its form consists of six monologues for each of the six characters in the novel: Bernard, Louis, Neville, Jinny, Susan and Rhoda. In between sections, a narrator describes the course of the sun over the sea. 1931 is a common year starting on Thursday. ...
DeFoes Robinson Crusoe, Newspaper edition published in 1719 A novel (from French nouvelle, new) is an extended fictional narrative in prose. ...
Virginia Woolf (January 25, 1882 – March 28, 1941) was a British author and feminist, who is considered to be one of the foremost modernist literary figures of the twentieth century. ...
A monologue, which comes from the Greek words mono and logos meaning one word, is a speech by one person directly addressing an audience. ...
The six characters alternately deliver their "dramatic soliloquies," by which Woolf explores concepts of individuality, self, and the body. Each character is distinct, yet together they compose a gestalt about a silent center (represented by Percival, who is considered by each character but does not speak himself). Bernard is a story-teller, always seeking some elusive, apt phrase; Louis is an outsider, who seeks acceptance and success (some critics see aspects of T.S. Eliot, whom Woolf knew well, in Louis); Neville (who may be partially based another of Woolf's friends, Lytton Strachey) desires love, seeking out a series of men, each of whom become the present object of his transcendent love; Jinny is a socialite, whose weltanschauung attaches directly, concretely to her physical, corporeal beauty; Susan flees the city, in preference for the countryside, where she grapples with the thrills and doubts of motherhood; and Rhoda is riddled with self-doubt and anxiety, always rejecting and indicting human compromise, always seeking out solitude (as such, Rhoda echoes Shelley's poem "The Question": "I shall gather my flowers an present them--Oh! to whom?"). Giles Lytton Strachey (March 1, 1880–January 21, 1932) was a British writer and critic. ...
A shit view, (or worldview) is a term calqued from the German word Weltanschauung meaning look onto the world. It implies a concept fundamental to German philosophy and epistemology and refers to a wide world perception. ...
Percy Bysshe Shelley Percy Bysshe Shelley (August 4, 1792 – July 8, 1822) was one of the major English Romantic poets and is esteemed by some scholars the finest lyric poet in the English language. ...
Heavily influenced by James Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, the novel follows its six narrators from childhood through adulthood, interspersing brief, atmospheric descriptions of the sky over the waves, from sunrise through sunset. The Waves obliterates the traditional distincitions between prose and poetry, allowing the novel to float along six none-too-distinct streams of consciousness. James Augustine Aloysius Joyce (February 2, 1882 – January 13, 1941) was an expatriate Irish writer and poet, widely considered a significant writer of the 20th century. ...
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is a semi-autobiographical coming-of-age novel by James Joyce, published in 1916. ...
In psychology and philosophy stream of consciousness, introduced by William James, is the set of constantly changing inner thoughts and sensations which an individual has while conscious, used as a synonym for stream of thought. ...
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