The Shaping of Jacob's Room: Woolf's Manuscript Revisions
1986; Duke University Press; Volume: 32; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês
10.2307/441309
ISSN2325-8101
Autores Tópico(s)Modernist Literature and Criticism
ResumoI think the main point is that it should be free. Yet what about form? Let us suppose that the Room will hold it together. Intensity of life compared with immobility. Experiences. To change style at will.' This preliminary note is now well known-Charles Hoffmann quoted it in his 1969 article on the drafts of Woolf's early novels-and it seems to indicate that the focus and the structuring principles were clear in her mind fiom the outset. Indeed, Hoffmann states, As evident in her preliminary notes for Room, Virginia Woolf intended from the beginning to use room as the central focus of the novel to 'hold it together' and give it form, and he devotes his attention to Woolf's handling of the stream of consciousness technique.2 But Woolf's intentions were not at all as certain as he suggests: she will perhaps call the book Jacob's Room; she supposes that the room will hold it together. Alex Zwerdling, in his perceptive study of technique and tone in the novel, disposes of the idea thatJJacob' Room was written for the sake of technical innovation-as David Daiches has suggested:and, citing Woolfs introduction to the Modern Library edition of Mrs. Dalloway, he asserts that it is evident she begins with a subject rather
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