Virginia Woolf’s Cosmic Vision and “the Commonly Thought Small” in “Kew Gardens” (1919)
- Autores: Dolors Ortega Arévalo
- Localización: Taking stock to look ahead: celebrating forty years of English studies in Spain / coord. por María Ferrández San Miguel, Claus Peter Neumann, 2018, ISBN 978-84-16723-51-5, págs. 125-130
- Idioma: inglés
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Resumen
This article analyses Woolf’s cosmic vision of life, the viscerality of life that she started to develop in her most radically experimental short-stories in which she would embrace life through her ongoing concern with literature as an act that replicates the indeterminacy of life. “Kew Gardens” will be the main case study. However, a detailed analysis of this cosmic vision in Woolf’s longer fiction (Orlando, Mrs Dalloway and The Waves) will be required to prove our case. The main thesis developed throughout the article is that “Kew Gardens” is not only an atmospheric, insubstantial impressionist experiment, but also an illustration of Woolf’s molecular vision of the world, a sketch of the vastness and multi-dimensionality of life that might reflect Woolf’s disperse understanding of subjectivity when explored through Deleuze and Guattari’s approach to individuation
