The Aesthetics of Interruption: Photographic Representation in Virginia Woolf’s Jacob’s Room
Abstrak
In Virginia Woolf’s Jacob’s Room, the many instances of the failure of language are literalized visually, but the result reflects a larger failure of representation. The visual interrupts the verbal in order to prove linguistic representation faulty, and when it disturbs the narrative flow, it becomes a better representative of the collective attempt at communication in the modern world. Woolf combines multiple modes of photography to create her own mode of photographic vision, which questions the status of representation through a paradoxical blending of snapshot and pictorialist photographic qualities. This blending is seen through Woolf’s photographic descriptions, language, silence, and portraiture, all of which function as interruptions within the text that simultaneously obscure and illuminate the characters.
Topik & Kata Kunci
Penulis (1)
Jessie Alperin
Akses Cepat
- Tahun Terbit
- 2017
- Sumber Database
- DOAJ
- DOI
- 10.4000/ebc.3981
- Akses
- Open Access ✓