This article discusses the impact of the Post-Impressionist Exhibition that Roger Fry organized in London in 1910 on Virginia Woolf's ideas on the novel.Her dissatisfaction with the state of the genre finds expres...This article discusses the impact of the Post-Impressionist Exhibition that Roger Fry organized in London in 1910 on Virginia Woolf's ideas on the novel.Her dissatisfaction with the state of the genre finds expression in her diary and in her criticism of the work of the Edwardian novelists.Jacob's Room(1922),her first truly experimental novel,deploys some of the painterly techniques that the post-impressionist painters and vanguard movements of the 1910s effected.It represents a decisive step in her search for a new form for a new novel.展开更多
文摘This article discusses the impact of the Post-Impressionist Exhibition that Roger Fry organized in London in 1910 on Virginia Woolf's ideas on the novel.Her dissatisfaction with the state of the genre finds expression in her diary and in her criticism of the work of the Edwardian novelists.Jacob's Room(1922),her first truly experimental novel,deploys some of the painterly techniques that the post-impressionist painters and vanguard movements of the 1910s effected.It represents a decisive step in her search for a new form for a new novel.
