Jacob's room ; The waves /
"Jacobs room" employs the conventions of a bildüngsroman to develop the expectations of a promising young man, only to pull them out from under him. Woolf illustrates what happens when a young man is denied the opportunity to excel and is instead sent to war. This book also serves as an el...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Harcourt, Brace and Company,
[1959]
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| Series: | Harvest book ;
HB37. |
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| Summary: | "Jacobs room" employs the conventions of a bildüngsroman to develop the expectations of a promising young man, only to pull them out from under him. Woolf illustrates what happens when a young man is denied the opportunity to excel and is instead sent to war. This book also serves as an elegy for the missing generation lost in the trenches of World War I. Set on the coast of England against the vivid background of the sea, The Waves introduces six characters -- three men and three women -- who are grappling with the death of a beloved friend, Percival. Instead of describing their outward expressions of grief, Virginia Woolf draws her characters from the inside, revealing them through their thoughts and interior soliloquies. As their understanding of nature's trials grows, the chorus of narrative voices blends together in miraculous harmony, remarking not only on the inevitable death of individuals but on the eternal connection of everyone. The novel that most epitomizes Virginia Woolf's theories of fiction in the working form, The Waves is an amazing book very much ahead of its time. It is a poetic dreamscape, visual, experimental, and thrilling. |
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| Item Description: | The Cushing Library/Women & Gender Studies copy was acquired as part of The Arden Eversmeyer Collection. |
| Physical Description: | 383 pages ; 21 cm |
| ISBN: | 0156457504 9780156457507 |