Virginia Woolfs Jacobs Room - Jacob Flanders, Many Things to Many Rea

Virginia Woolfs Jacobs Room - Jacob Flanders, Many Things to Many ReadersListless is the air in an empty room, just swelling the curtain the flowers in the jar shift. champion fibre in the wicker arm- chair creaks, though no one sits there. - Jacobs Room The year 1922 marks the beginning of High Modernism with the publications of T. S. Eliots The Wasteland, James Joyces Ulysses, and Virginia Woolfs Jacobs Room. Woolfs novel, save her third, is not generally afforded the iconic worship and critical praise so often attached to those works of her most famous male contemporaries. Jacobs Room is seldom suggested as one of Woolfs best fiction the novel has not generated the same encomia as her recognized masterpieces Mrs. Dalloway, Between the Acts, and The Waves. But Jacobs Room is indeed a revolutionary work in its original technical mastery, its mournful historicity, and its evocative tone. The novel is Woolfs manifesto in fiction of her unique enterprise to create character beyond t he one-to-one mimetic method of conventional Victorian and Edwardian realism. Uniquely self-conscious and conscious of self, Woolf was attracted to exploring new modes of characterization, fictive consciousness, and epistemology. She is especially interested in exploring the nature, communication, and limits of fictional knowledge. Woolfs idiosyncratic mode of characterization in Jacobs Room is the epistemological complement in fiction to Eliots formula for emotional expression in poetry, the objective correlative. spot Eliots description of the ideal artistic technique tries to be concise and formulaic, a direct mimetic correspondence, Woolfs technique is symbolic and metaphoric, collective, indefinite, and infinitely more ... ...Merry. Virginia Woolfs Between the Acts Fascism in the Heart of England. Virginia Woolf Miscellanies Proceedings of the First Annual Conference on Virginia Woolf. Ed. by Mark Hussey and Vara Neverow-Turk. Lanham, MD Pace University Press, 1992. pp. 188- 191. Ruddick, Sara. Private Brother, Public World. juvenile Feminist Essays on Virginia Woolf. Ed. by Jane Marcus. Lincoln University of Nebraska Press, 1981. pp. 185-215. Schug, Charles. The Romantic Genesis of the Modern Novel. Pittsburgh University of Pittsburgh Press, 1979. Woolf, Virginia. The Essays of Virginia Woolf. Volume III. 1919-1924. Ed. by Andrew McNeillie. New York Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1988. -----. Jacobs Room. New York The Penguin Group, 1998. -----. The Letters of Virginia Woolf. Volume II. 1912-1922. Ed. by Nigel Nicholson. New York Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1976.