The Waves by Virginia Woolf — A Rhizomatic Reading

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The Waves by Virginia Woolf — A Rhizomatic Reading

HAJJAJ, Mohamed

Základní údaje

Originální název

The Waves by Virginia Woolf — A Rhizomatic Reading

Autoři

HAJJAJ, Mohamed

Vydání

Hradec Králové Anglophone Conference 27.3. – 28.3. 2025, in Hradec Králové, Czech Republic, 2025

Další údaje

Jazyk

angličtina

Typ výsledku

Prezentace na konferencích

Obor

60205 Literary theory

Stát vydavatele

Česká republika

Utajení

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

Odkazy

Hradec Králové Anglophone Conference 2025

Organizační jednotka

Filozofická fakulta

Klíčová slova anglicky

The Waves; Bernard; Deleuze; Rhizome; Dialogic

Příznaky

Mezinárodní význam

Změněno: 14. 7. 2025 12:27, Mgr. Mohamed Hajjaj

Anotace

V originále

This paper will aim to provide a textual analysis of Virginia Woolf’s novel: The Waves in connection to the concept of the Rhizome developed by Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari in their seminal work: A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia. In their work, Deleuze and Guattari declare that all Western reality and thought has been dominated by what we might call arborescent reality. The latter refers to a dendritic understanding of reality in which hierarchical relationships are the main driving force of all representations. The present paper will argue that The Waves by Virginia Woolf is a novel that attempts to escape such an arborescent understanding of storytelling. First, through a dendritic lens of storytelling, a narrative is bound to be genealogical in structure and hence fall into dichotomies and narrative dualities. I will argue that The Waves, a great example of Modernist literature, shows a great force towards anti-genealogy which, it is argued, is one of the main principles of a Rhizomatic structure or narrative. Secondly, the novel will be studied in terms of its non-linear structure; a feature that echoes the interconnectedness or what Deleuze and Guattari might call the relational force of the novel. I will argue that Woolf manages to drive the story forward by highlighting the relationship between different elements and characters in the novel.

Návaznosti

MUNI/A/1328/2023, interní kód MU

Název: Jazyk, literatura a kultura v anglofonních kontextech I

Investor: Masarykova univerzita, Jazyk, literatura a kultura v anglofonních kontextech I

Citovat

HAJJAJ, Mohamed. The Waves by Virginia Woolf — A Rhizomatic Reading. In Hradec Králové Anglophone Conference 27.3. – 28.3. 2025, in Hradec Králové, Czech Republic. 2025.

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HAJJAJ, Mohamed. The Waves by Virginia Woolf — A Rhizomatic Reading. In \textit{Hradec Králové Anglophone Conference 27.3. – 28.3. 2025, in Hradec Králové, Czech Republic}. 2025.

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