- Title Pages
- Introduction
- Acknowledgments
- Virginia Woolf Standard Abbreviations
- Roundtable: Woolf and Violence
- Intersections: Surveillance, Propaganda, and Just War
- Modernism and Memorials: Virginia Woolf and Christopher Isherwood
- Taking Up Her Pen for World Peace: Virginia Woolf, Feminist Pacifist. Or Not?
- The Sex War and the Great War: Woolf’S Late Victorian Inheritance in <i>Three Guineas</i>
- Sky Haunting: The British Motor-Car Industry and the World Wars<sup>1</sup>
- The 1914 “Expurgated Chunk”: The Great War in and out of <i>The Years</i>
- “beauty, simplicity and peace”: Faithful Pacifism, Activist Writing, and <i>The Years</i>
- Virginia Woolf, Katharine Burdekin, and Britain’s Cosmopolitan Musical Culture
- Death in the Air: Virginia Woolf and Sylvia Townsend Warner in World War II
- Teaching Privileges: <i>Three Guineas</i> and the Cost of Global Citizenship
- From Guineas to Riyals: Teaching Woolf in the Middle East
- Fashionable Misconceptions: The Creation of the East in Virginia Woolf’s <i>Orlando</i>
- From London to Taipei: Writing the Past in “Wandering in the Garden, Waking from a Dream” and <i>Mrs. Dalloway</i>
- An Estranged Intimacy with the World: The Postcolonial Woolf’s Planetary Love in <i>The Voyage Out</i>
- “Shakespeare’s Sister”: Woolf in the World Before <i>A Room of One’s Own</i>
- Leonard Woolf: Writing the World of Palestine, Zionism, and the State of Israel
- “And the donkey brays”: Donkeys at Work in Virginia Woolf
- Companion Creatures: “Dogmanity” in <i>Three Guineas</i>
- Virginia Woolf’s Object-Oriented Ecology
- The Bodies In/Are <i>The Waves</i>
- Stretching our “Antennae”: Converging Worlds of the Seen and the Unseen in “Kew Gardens”
- “The Problem of Space”: Embodied Language and the Body in Nature in <i>To the Lighthouse</i>
- “Whose Woods These Are”: Virginia Woolf and the Primeval Forests of the Mind
- Negative Feminism and Anti-Development in Virginia Woolf’s <i>The Voyage Out</i>
- Upheavals of Intimacy in <i>To the Lighthouse</i>
- The Reconciliations of Poetry in Virginia Woolf’s <i>Between the Acts</i>; or, Why it’s “perfectly ridiculous to call it a novel”
- Virginia Woolf, Composition Theorist: How Imagined Audiences Can Wreck a Writer
- The Precarity of “Civilization” in Woolf’s Creative Worldmaking
- Notes on Contributors
- Conference Program
- Appendix
The Bodies In/Are The Waves
The Bodies In/Are The Waves
- Chapter:
- (p.154) The Bodies In/Are The Waves
- Source:
- Virginia Woolf: Writing the World
- Author(s):
Michael Tratner
- Publisher:
- Liverpool University Press
In her essay “On Being Ill,” Virginia Woolf indicates that she saw the power of the body to shape consciousness as undermining what literature had generally presented. This essay suggests that The Waves is structured to make us feel that unending procession of physical changes. The interludes provide a time sequence that seems utterly natural and the sections between the interludes mark stages in the lives of characters that have no relation to any plans in the lives of those characters; the only “plot” of these stages seems to be that of moving in accord with the physical flow of time. The interludes gradually become a set of metaphors that define each section of the book as a stage in those six human lives and those stages of the six lives then appear to be waves that flow as a result of natural forces, not human choices or historical events. The Waves thus constitutes an attempt to address the new concepts of localized biology contemporary to Woolf, concepts which contradicted the longstanding Western idea of the unified mind in a controllable body.
Keywords: Virginia Woolf, On Being Ill, The Waves, Body, Neuroscience, Localization, Inhibition, Masculinity, Androgyny
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- Title Pages
- Introduction
- Acknowledgments
- Virginia Woolf Standard Abbreviations
- Roundtable: Woolf and Violence
- Intersections: Surveillance, Propaganda, and Just War
- Modernism and Memorials: Virginia Woolf and Christopher Isherwood
- Taking Up Her Pen for World Peace: Virginia Woolf, Feminist Pacifist. Or Not?
- The Sex War and the Great War: Woolf’S Late Victorian Inheritance in <i>Three Guineas</i>
- Sky Haunting: The British Motor-Car Industry and the World Wars<sup>1</sup>
- The 1914 “Expurgated Chunk”: The Great War in and out of <i>The Years</i>
- “beauty, simplicity and peace”: Faithful Pacifism, Activist Writing, and <i>The Years</i>
- Virginia Woolf, Katharine Burdekin, and Britain’s Cosmopolitan Musical Culture
- Death in the Air: Virginia Woolf and Sylvia Townsend Warner in World War II
- Teaching Privileges: <i>Three Guineas</i> and the Cost of Global Citizenship
- From Guineas to Riyals: Teaching Woolf in the Middle East
- Fashionable Misconceptions: The Creation of the East in Virginia Woolf’s <i>Orlando</i>
- From London to Taipei: Writing the Past in “Wandering in the Garden, Waking from a Dream” and <i>Mrs. Dalloway</i>
- An Estranged Intimacy with the World: The Postcolonial Woolf’s Planetary Love in <i>The Voyage Out</i>
- “Shakespeare’s Sister”: Woolf in the World Before <i>A Room of One’s Own</i>
- Leonard Woolf: Writing the World of Palestine, Zionism, and the State of Israel
- “And the donkey brays”: Donkeys at Work in Virginia Woolf
- Companion Creatures: “Dogmanity” in <i>Three Guineas</i>
- Virginia Woolf’s Object-Oriented Ecology
- The Bodies In/Are <i>The Waves</i>
- Stretching our “Antennae”: Converging Worlds of the Seen and the Unseen in “Kew Gardens”
- “The Problem of Space”: Embodied Language and the Body in Nature in <i>To the Lighthouse</i>
- “Whose Woods These Are”: Virginia Woolf and the Primeval Forests of the Mind
- Negative Feminism and Anti-Development in Virginia Woolf’s <i>The Voyage Out</i>
- Upheavals of Intimacy in <i>To the Lighthouse</i>
- The Reconciliations of Poetry in Virginia Woolf’s <i>Between the Acts</i>; or, Why it’s “perfectly ridiculous to call it a novel”
- Virginia Woolf, Composition Theorist: How Imagined Audiences Can Wreck a Writer
- The Precarity of “Civilization” in Woolf’s Creative Worldmaking
- Notes on Contributors
- Conference Program
- Appendix
