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The Luminous Halo: The Place Of Language In The Waves And The Years, Rachel Luban
The Luminous Halo: The Place Of Language In The Waves And The Years, Rachel Luban
Honors Papers
Can words ever express a truth beyond language? Virginia Woolf explores this persistent question most directly in two of her late novels, The Waves and The Years. The two appear to sit at opposite ends of the spectrum of her writing, The Waves embodying interiority and vision and The Years embodying exteriority and fact. The apparent realism of The Years, following on the heels of the impressionism of The Waves, has caused many critics to dismiss it as an aberration. But in fact the later novel is far from a regression to traditional realism: it takes up where its predecessor …