'Nothing is simply one thing': Woolf, Deleuze and Difference

This paper explores some key texts of Virginia Woolf in the context of Deleuzian concepts. Using a close reading style, it shows how the prose poetry in Mrs Dalloway engages a complex interplay of repetition and difference, resulting in a remarkably similar model of the three syntheses of time as De...

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Published in:Deleuze & Guattari Studies 2013-11, Vol.7 (4), p.456-474
Main Author: Monaco, Beatrice
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Deleuze, Gilles
Philosophy and Religion
Poetry
Prose
Rationality
Rhythm
Time
Woolf, Virginia (1882-1941)
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Summary:This paper explores some key texts of Virginia Woolf in the context of Deleuzian concepts. Using a close reading style, it shows how the prose poetry in Mrs Dalloway engages a complex interplay of repetition and difference, resulting in a remarkably similar model of the three syntheses of time as Deleuze understands them. It subsequently explores Woolf's technical processes in a key passage from To the Lighthouse , showing how the prose-poetic technique systematically undoes the structures of logical fact and rationality inscribed in both language and everyday speech to an extremely precise level.
ISSN:1750-2241
2398-9777
1755-1684
2398-9785
DOI:10.3366/dls.2013.0124