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1. 1. Beyond Vision: Eyeless Writing in Virginia Woolf's The Waves

   Master-uppsats, Stockholms universitet/Engelska institutionen

   Författare :Marie-Helen Stahl; [2019]
   Nyckelord :Modernism; Virginia Woolf; Maurice Merleau-Ponty; phenomenology; vision; eyeless writing; anti-ocularcentrism; nonanthropocentrism; body;

   Sammanfattning : In the early 20thcentury, a “crisis of ocularcentrism” arose in philosophy, replacing the Cartesian epistemological notion of a disembodied mind inspecting the object-world from the outside with an ontological and phenomenological approach to vision and being, embedding humans corporeally in a world exceeding their perceptual horizon (Jay 94). In response, modernist artists abandoned realist and naturalist techniques, rejecting mimetic representation, and experimented with new artistic forms, trying to account for the new complexity of life. LÄS MER