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 \nChatto and Windus Ltd and Random House Inc,for the extractsfrom Swann's Way by Marcel Proust,translated by C.K.ScottMoncrieff,C the Translator's Literary Estate,and Time Regained(U.S.title,The Past Recaptured)from Remembrance of Things Past byMarcel Proust,translated by Andreas Mayor,C the Translator'sLiterary Estate;  \nThe Hogarth Press Ltd,the Literary Estate of Virginia Woolf andHarcourt Brace Jovanovich Inc,for the extracts from The Voyage Out,Night and Day,Jacob's Room,Mrs Dalloway,Collected Essays VolumeII,To the Lighthouse,Orlando,The Waves,The Years,Between theActs,A Haunted House and Other Stories and Mrs Dalloway's Party byVirginia Woolf,CI920,by George H.Doran and Company;CI922,I925,I927,I93I,I937,I94I,I944,I972,by Harcourt BraceJovanovich Inc;CI928,by Virginia Woolf;CI948,I950,I953,I955,I956,I958,I959,I965,I969,by Leonard Woolf;CI973 byQuentin Bell and Angelica Garnett.  \nLaurence Pollinger Ltd on behalf of the Estate of the late Mrs FriedaLawrence and Viking Press Inc,for an extract from Sons and Lovers by  \nD.H.Lawrence.  \n# Introduction\n\nThe recent abundance of material on Virginia Woolf as a iterarypersonage certainly has its interest,but though it can be seen asrelevant to her work,her fiction is far more rewarding when studiedas art rather than as an emanation of the writer's personality.It is as artthat this book approaches Virginia Woolf's fiction.More specifically,this book investigates the psychological and epistemological ideaswhich lie behind her characteristic use of symbols and which explainthe sensibility that is so indubitably hers,and that arouses eithersympathy or revulsion in her critics.For the strength of her writing,and the originality of her writing,reside in her presentation of areality that is created and sustained by the perceiver;and this reality isfar more substantial,coherent and complex than the novelist was ableto explain in her critical essays,letters or diaries.  \nThe centre of Virginia Woolf's artistic sensibility is the need ofconsciousness to establish its identity and integrity,and the vulner-ability of consciousness to the constant barrage of impressions andfeelings which can on the one hand vitalise,","cbCaibrZOiLioJi3","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaibrZOiLioJi3","pdf",20988784,175,"English","# Introduction\n## The focus on consciousness and identity\n## Symbols, perception, and the perceiver\n## From isolation to stimulus in early novels\n## Storytelling, aspect-seeing, and reality vs fantasy","[{\"question\":\"What approach does the book take toward Virginia Woolf’s fiction?\",\"answer\":\"It studies Woolf’s fiction as art, not as an outgrowth of the writer’s personality. 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