Year: 2024
Type: article
Abstract: This thesis provides modern and contemporary fiction writers with creative writing perspectives by investigating into the compositional methods applied by Virginia Woolf in The Waves and analysing excerpt samples with literary pragmatics. The author’s wording “blurs” the appearances of the six main characters within the novel, her writing background and the audience’s reading context. Meanwhile, she “magnifies” the six main characters’ languages and behaviours. Moreover, both approaches cover multi-dimensional characterization and contribute to narrowing the gap between the author’s characters and the audience, which facilitates the latter to become empathetically engaged and further their relationships with these fictional figures more effectively.
Source: Philosophy and social science.
DOI: 10.62381/p243909
Author: Hu Wanjin
Institution: China Foreign Affairs University
Language: English
Subfield: Literature and Literary Theory
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: hybrid
OpenAlex ID: W4409448367