From the Archives: Part 85 of The Self and its Sources

Virginia Woolf’s voice in the novel: Bernard -

“He joined the sensibility of a woman and the logical sobriety of a man…” “When I am alone I fall into lethargy; when Lewis is alone he sees with astonishing intensity and will write some words that will outlast us all.”

The solution to the mimetic crisis can only be religious; can only be found in true transcendence.

From the Archives: Part 81 of The Self and its Sources

Echoes of the poetry of TS Eliot in Virginia Woolf’s “The Waves”...and Robert Hughes comments on Andy Warhol.
In Warhol’s world the hunger for approval and forgiveness was satisfied by publicity.

From the Archives: Part 66 of The Self and its Sources

Mirrors...I have no face

From the Archives: Part 57 of The Self and its Sources

The consequences of this mimetic drama begin spreading like ripples on water...like waves.

From the Archives: Part 56 of The Self and its Sources

The children are in the garden. The plot begins with one spontaneous expression of desire, Jinny comes dashing by and kisses Lewis…, which sets the whole mimetic dynamic in motion. This event is surreptitiously viewed by Susan. The Fall...

From the Archives: Part 55 of the Self and its Sources

The mimetic chirping of the birds…

From the Archives: Part 54 of The Self and its Sources

Virginia Woolf introduces each section of the novel with an italizied phrase referring to the position of the sun in the sky. Section one: "The sun had not quite risen; the sea and sky were indistinguishable." Mythological imagery. The sun comes up…its light striking the leaves in the garden making them transparent.

From the Archives: Part 53 of The Self and its Sources

The dramatis personae of the Waves. The story is comprised of a series of internal monologs of a strange kind. The more you know about a character’s internal life it seems the more undifferentiated they appear to every other character.

From the Archives: Part 52 of The Self and its Sources

"The Moths" or "The Waves" – alternative titles to novel.

The moth drawn to the flame; drawn to the light but not so close as to be destroyed. The Waves – crashing on the shore, one following the other in endless repetition.

From the Archives: Part 50 of The Self and its Sources

A short overview of Virginia Woolf’s life and the Bloomsbury group. Her novel, the Waves, provides an insight into the social and psychological drama of the modern world. It is based on the experience largely that she had while at the center of this literary circle called the Bloomsbury group.