VIRGINIA WOOLF - A BRIEF GLANCE ON HER LIFE, WORKS AND STYLE.

VIRGINIA’S TASTE TOWARDS THE LITERARY TECHNIQUES. Virginia’s theory of fiction is totally different from that of Fielding, Scott, Jane Austen, Dickens, or Hardy etc. Fielding defined fiction as a comic epic in prose, Scott made it a means for the reproduction of history and romance. Whereas for Jane Austen it was just a medium of expressing life’s little experiences, a storm in a tea - cup. Dickens regarded it as a chronicle of social history and a picture gallery of caricatures and characters. Hardy sought through it an expression of the tragic, the fatal and the pessimistic with Hardy again plot and character were of primary importance. It was the misfortune of Virginia that she was born in an age which was so prosaic. Had she been in an age of poetry she would have been a great poet. As a prose writer too she belongs to the tradition of those who have enriched English literature by writing poetic prose. She is however, a poet without the proper apparatus and equipm...

"Virginia Woolf Wallpaper"(CC BY 2.0) by lushka1 Descending from the intellectual aristocracy, Woolf is one of the most noteworthy novelists of the twentieth century. She was the one who tried to give a new direction to the English novel with a new spiritual awareness.  She was a novelist of distinction and an artist who whatever her dependence upon tradition had something original to say and who surpassed most of her contemporaries in sensitive fidelity to the most evanescent moments of conscious. Virginia’s style of writing has invented something new which takes a break from tradition and conventional conceptions of the novel; she entirely rejected and replaced all the old notions of writings. She gave more emphasis on incident, external description, and straight forward narrative by an overriding concern with the character presentation by the Stream of consciousness method. The way Proust introduced something new into French fiction, likewise Virginia Woolf d...