“A Very Remarkable Piece of Iron”: Towards a Theory of Material Imagination in Virginia Woolf’s “Solid Objects”
This article examines the supposed lack of “humanity” in Woolf’s short stories and novels by identifying its source in the sphere of “solid objects” and in the way these “objects” destabilize the coherence of what the western philosophical tradition typically refers to as “subject” (in the Cartesian...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Charles University
2014-09-01
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Series: | Prague Journal of English Studies |
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Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.2478/pjes-2014-0015 |