Visuality and Spatiality in Virginia Woolf's Fiction - Volume 23 - Interpretative Key and Interart Strategies

Sep 21, 2026

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Offers an interpretative key to Virginia Woolf’s visual and spatial strategies, examining their nature, role, and function within Modernism. Addresses theoretical and critical issues with philosophical implications and connects Woolf’s aesthetic commitments to contemporary practices. The book’s analytical core draws on a historical survey of interart relations and key critical theories, using descriptive, spatial-form, and cognitive visuality. Demonstrates remedial and cognitive value through intertextual analysis of To the Lighthouse, The Waves, and Between the Acts.

LanguageEnglish

CategoryResearch & Report

FormatPDF

Pages314

Reading Time13 h 11 min

AccessFree to download

Contents

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Bibliography

Index

CISRA Vol 23 Visuality and Spatiality in Virginia Woolf ’s Fiction Savina Stevanato Peter Lang Cultural Interactions: Studies in the Relationship between the Arts This book offers an interpretative key to Virginia Woolf’s visual and spatial strategies by investigating their nature, role and function. The author examines long-debated theoretical and critical issues with their philosophical implications, as well as Woolf’s commitment to contemporary aesthetic theories and practices. The analytical core of the book is introduced by a historical survey of the interart relationship and significant critical theories, with a focus on the context of Modernism. The author makes use of three investigative tools: descriptive visuality, the widely debated notion of spatial form, and cognitive visuality. The cognitive and remedial value of Woolf’s visual and spatial strategies is demonstrated through an inter-textual analysis of To the Lighthouse, The Waves and Between the Acts (with cross-references to Woolf’s short stories and Jacob’s Room). The development of Woolf’s literary output is read in the light of a quest for unity, a formal attempt to restore parts to wholeness and to rescue Being from Nothingness. SavinaStevanato received her PhD from the Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, where she has since held two research fellowships. Her research interests lie in the relationship between the verbal and the visual and between the verbal and the musical in English modernist literature, with particular reference to T.S. Eliot and Virginia Woolf. [www.peterlang.com](www.peterlang.com) Visuality and Spatiality in Virginia Woolf’s Fiction Cultural InteraCtIons Studies in the Relationship between the Arts Edited by J.B. Bullen Volume 23 PETER LANG Oxford • Bern • Berlin • Bruxelles • Frankfurt am Main • New York • Wien Savina Stevanato Visuality and Spatiality in Virginia Woolf’s Fiction PETER LANG Oxford • Bern • Berlin • Bruxelles • Frankfurt am Main • New York • Wien Bibliographic information published by Die Deutsche Nationalbibliothek. Die Deutsche Nationalbibliothek lists this publication in the Deutsche Nationalbibliografie; detailed bibliographic data is available on the Internet at [http://dnb.d-nb.de](http://dnb.d-nb.de). A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data: Stevanato, Savina, 1969- Visuality and spatiality in Virginia Woolf’s fiction / Savina Stevanato. [p. cm. --](p. cm. --) (Cultural interactions: studies in the relationship between the arts ; 23) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-3-0343-0241-8 (alk. paper) 1. Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941--Criticism and interpretation. I. Title. PR6045.O72Z8786 2011 823’.912--dc23 2011043620 ISSN 1662-0364 ISBN 978-3-0343-0241-8 E ISBN 978 3 0353 0266 0 Cover image © Savina Stevanato © Peter Lang AG, International Academic Publishers, Bern 2012 Hochfeldstrasse 32, CH-3012 Bern, Switzerland info@pete[rlang.com](rlang.com), [www.pete](www.peterlang.com)[rlang.com](www.peterlang.com), [www.pete](www.peterlang.net)[rlang.net](www.peterlang.net) [All rights reserved.](All rights reserved.) All parts of this publication are protected by copyright. Any utilisation outside the strict limits of the copyright law, without the permission of the publisher, is forbidden and liable to prosecution. This applies in particular to reproductions, translations, microfilming, and storage and processing in electronic retrieval systems. Printed in Germany Contents Abbreviations vii Note on the Text ix Preface xi Acknowledgements xv Chapter 1 An Approach to Interart Investigation 1 Chapter 2 The Modern Age and the Arts 27 Chapter 3 Woolf ’s Visuality and Spatiality 83 Chapter 4 To the Lighthouse, The Waves, Between the Acts: An Analysis 125 Chapter 5 The Remedial Implications of Spatial Form 197 Bibliography 275

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What is the central focus of the book?

The book investigates Virginia Woolf’s visual and spatial strategies, explaining their nature, role, and function in relation to Modernism and aesthetic theory.

Which novels does the book analyze intertextually?

It demonstrates cognitive and remedial value through inter-textual analysis of To the Lighthouse, The Waves, and Between the Acts.

What investigative tools does the author use?

The author uses three tools: descriptive visuality, the notion of spatial form, and cognitive visuality, to build the book’s analytical core.

Sep 21, 2026

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