Virginia Woolf The Frames of Art and Life [Hardcover]

An attempt to illuminate Virginia Woolf's aesthetic by providing an original thoery regarding her use of the random frames provided by life. Her novels are shown to use windows, thresholds, mirrors and, less directly, rooms to frame scenes which chart the border between life and art.Preface - Acknowledgements - PART 1 ART AND LIFE - The Frame - The Oppostition of Art and Life - The Relationships between Art and Life - The Reconciliation of Art and Life - To See Life Steadily and See it Whole - The Necessity of Frames - PART 2 TOWARDS A DEFENCE OF THE NOVEL - Literature Among the Arts - The Novel Among the Genres - PART 3 FRAMES - Rooms - Thresholds - Mirrors - Windows - Bibliography - Notes - Index