“In the Midst of Chaos There Was Shape”: Formalist Aesthetics and Ekphrasis in To the Lighthouse

Virginia Woolf’s autobiographical novel To the Lighthouse explicitly connects itself with Bloomsbury formalist aesthetics, with a special acknowledgement of Roger Fry’s formalist influence. This essay focuses on the influence of Fry’s formalist principles on To the Lighthouse, but additionally propo...

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Main Author: Liu Kehan
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Sciendo 2023-12-01
Series:American, British and Canadian Studies Journal
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.2478/abcsj-2023-0023