‘Nothing is simply one thing’: Woolf, Deleuze and Difference

Author： Monaco Beatrice  

Publisher： Edinburgh University Press

ISSN： 1755-1684

Source： Deleuze Studies, Vol.7, Iss.4, 2013-11, pp. : 456-474

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Abstract

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.

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