title: A room with no Jacob: An aesthetic of absence in Virginia Woolf ’s novels
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metadata.value: Gavritckov, Arsenii N.
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metadata.value: 2022-09-29T11:27:34Z
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metadata.value: 2022-09-29T11:27:34Z
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metadata.value: Gavritckov A. N. A room with no Jacob: An aesthetic of absence in Virginia Woolf ’s novels. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Language and Literature. 2022, 19 (2): 238–252. https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu09.2022.202 (In Russian)
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metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu09.2022.202
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/37973
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metadata.value: This article explores Virginia Woolf ’s experiments with the narrative that added impersonality
  to her texts. It focuses on an indefinite narrator’s entries, Woolf ’s making her main characters
  absent from the plot, and focus shifts from the novels’ anthropomorphic characters. An aesthetics
  of absence is seen as the key element of Woolf ’s individual style, which defines both
  the structure and the focalization of her novels. The article analyzes the category of absence
  in the early Woolf ’s novel The Voyage Out and the subsequent reimagining and deeper development
  of this technique by the writer, which found expression in her later novels Jacob’s
  Room, To the Lighthouse, and The Waves. The examples from these works demonstrate how
  the writer intentionally shifts the focus of the narration from the central characters, thereby
  creating obstructions for herself as an author in order to discover a new way of telling a story.
  Appealing to the category of absence is considered in the article as a strategy for finding new
  ways of constructing narrative. The writer’s experiments with impersonalization show that the
  absence of the main character does not make it impossible to further develop the narrative:
  the text goes on even if its characters are silent, passive, absent. In addition, the article traces
  the connection of the deliberate impersonalization of the text with the writer’s idea of a single
  universal consciousness that does not disappear after a human’s death: so does the text continue
  to develop after Woolf made its main characters absent.
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metadata.value: ru
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metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
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metadata.value: Vestnik of St Petersburg University. Language and Literature;Volume 19; Issue 2
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Virginia Woolf
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metadata.value: narratology
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: aesthetic of absence
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metadata.value: focalization
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metadata.value: narrative point of view
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metadata.value: A room with no Jacob: An aesthetic of absence in Virginia Woolf ’s novels
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