The Embodiment Of Artistic Features In Virginia Woolf's The Waves

Regarded as the master of stream-of-consciousness novels, Virginia Woolf is a famous modernist female writer at the beginning of the 20th century. She becomes very interested in music and painting since her childhood, and in her works the poetic features can be savored. In The Waves she discards the conventional way of writing and tries to interpret the spiritual world of modern people from a new perspective.The thesis aims at analyzing the artistic features embodied in The Waves from three aspects. First, the unique narrative writing technique—internal focalization will be mentioned, which includes fixed and multiple internal focalizations. The employment of internal focalization enables the narrative form more flexible. Second, symbolism, musical lyricism and rhythm and rhyme are the embodiments of poeticized features, which endow the novel with unique charms no matter in its form or content. What's more, Woolf resorts to impressionist and post-impressionist painting techniques in the creation of The Waves, such as the employments of color, transient moment and simplification principle. The reasonable integration of multiple art forms in The Waves makes readers realize the possibility of merging other art forms into novels.