Denying the Dichotomy: Word Images in The Waves

Roger Fry’s introduction to Britain of the works of Post-impressionist painters was to impact significantly on the artistic development of writers including Virginia Woolf. Out of this convergence of visual and verbal thought, The Waves emerged; a literary work deeply implicated in visual convention...

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Main Author: Bernadette McCarthy
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Language:English
Published: Presses Universitaires de la Méditerranée 2006-12-01
Series:Cahiers Victoriens et Edouardiens
Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/cve/12499
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description Roger Fry’s introduction to Britain of the works of Post-impressionist painters was to impact significantly on the artistic development of writers including Virginia Woolf. Out of this convergence of visual and verbal thought, The Waves emerged; a literary work deeply implicated in visual convention. Its pictorial interludes represent an inseparable union of word and image. I propose to examine these passages with a visual art critical lens and to consider them as one would a series of paintings.
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