Virginia Woolf: The Frames of Art and Life

An attempt to underline Virginia Woolf's aesthetic by revealing the importance of the frames in her writings. While Virginia Woolf recognized that frames are required to achieve a unified vision, she remained aware of their drawbacks - exclusivity, distortion and imposition. Within her novels she repeatedly uses windows, thresholds, mirrors and to a lesser degree, rooms to frame scenes. This book provides an original theory, maintaining that these random "frames of life" achieve the goal that Virginia Woolf set herself as a writer; to provide a perspective without imposing their own design and to chart the border between life and art.