Post-Impressionism and Virginia Woolf's Experimentation with Literary Forms

Bayraktar, Nurten

Post-Impressionism and Virginia Woolf's Experimentation with Literary Forms

dc.authorid	0000-0002-3786-6698
dc.contributor.author	Bayraktar, Nurten
dc.date.accessioned	2022-08-03T15:54:28Z
dc.date.available	2022-08-03T15:54:28Z
dc.date.issued	2022	en_US
dc.department	Kapadokya Üniversitesi, Beşeri Bilimler Fakültesi, İngiliz Dili ve Edebiyatı Bölümü
dc.description.abstract	Virginia Woolf as one of the leading figures of modernist literature was in pursuit of challenging the so-called limitations of form in fiction. Triggered by the intellectual discussions in the Bloomsbury Group, formed by a group of intellectuals and artists in England, she attempted to redefine literary form by reorganizing her fiction to oppose the painters in the group who believed that literary form is restricted because of the nature of language. Influenced by her discussions with post-impressionist artists such as Vanessa Bell, Clive Bell and Roger Fry, Woolf acknowledged that artistic creativity is intermingled by “a myriad impressions” of an “ordinary mind on an ordinary day” with its own peculiarities and dissonances. Similarly, post-impressionism rejects objectivity as a necessity in realist painting and embraces spiritualism and personality in artistic expression. Knowing that literature is not solely composed of abstract ideas, Woolf even tested new printing techniques. In her novels, not only content and narrative techniques but also the norms regarding physical organization of a book are challenged. Therefore, Woolf greyed the lines between form and content by rendering the book itself as a fragmented material. Consequently, this paper aims to discuss Woolf’s experimentalism in her selected works as a modernist attempt to blur the borders of the two edging literary components—form and content—by looking into the influences of post-impressionist art on her fiction.
dc.identifier.citation	Bayraktar, Nurten. “Post-Impressionism and Virginia Woolf's Experimentation with Literary Forms.” Journal of Modernism and Postmodernism Studies, vol. 3, no. 1, July 2022, pp. 1–10., https://doi.org/10.47333/modernizm.2022.64.
dc.identifier.endpage	10	en_US
dc.identifier.issue	1	en_US
dc.identifier.startpage	1	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	https://dergi.modernizm.org/index.php/journal/article/view/174/90
dc.identifier.uri	https://doi.org/10.47333/modernizm.2022.64
dc.identifier.uri	https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12695/1699
dc.identifier.volume	3	en_US
dc.institutionauthor	Bayraktar, Nurten
dc.language.iso	en
dc.relation.ispartof	Journal of Modernism and Postmodernism Studies
dc.relation.publicationcategory	Makale - Uluslararası Hakemli Dergi - Kurum Öğretim Elemanı
dc.rights	info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess	en_US
dc.subject	Modernism
dc.subject	Post-impressionism
dc.subject	Virginia Woolf
dc.subject	Literary Experimentalism
dc.subject	Roger Fry
dc.subject	Vanessa Bell
dc.title	Post-Impressionism and Virginia Woolf's Experimentation with Literary Forms
dc.type	Article