Virginia Woolf and the art of pain

• Autores: Teresa Louro
• Localización: Relational designs in literature and the arts: page and stage, canvas and screen / Rui Carvalho Homem (ed. lit.), 2012, ISBN 978-90-420-3581-2, págs. 303-312
• Idioma: inglés
• Texto completo no disponible (Saber más ...)
• Resumen

  • Since both art and pain invite us to think about the logic of feeling and the function of emotion, I explore their connection in two ways. First, art as the vehicle by which pain is expressed - in words and in the text. Second, pain as a consequence of the process of creating art. In "The Voyage Out" and "Between the Acts", Woolf changes the notion of pain to one of value and presence which is registered primarily as something beyond the control of rhe self. Pain is no longer an isolated reminder of individual absurdity and despair (themes so dear to Joyce and Heckett) but at the heart of \Voolrs fiction. The critical force of this analysis will become evident when we consider the density, at once epistemological and ontological, regarding the discourse of pain p resent in Woolf's narratives. Taking as a point of departure Freud's theory of pain, I investigate the production of forms of suffering in Woolf's texts with the aim of exploring the rich cross fertilization between the art of pain and words on the page - as language turns bodily experience into its literary visibility.