By Dr Oliver Tearle (Loughborough University) ‘Solid Objects’ is not as well-known or widely studied as some of Virginia Woolf’s other short stories, such as ‘The Mark on the Wall’ or ‘Kew Gardens’, but it is one of the most consummate statements of her modernist aesthetic.
Tag: Modernist Literature
A Short Analysis of Virginia Woolf’s ‘In the Orchard’
By Dr Oliver Tearle (Loughborough University) In a previous post we attempted a ‘summary’ of ‘In the Orchard’, which is not one of Virginia Woolf’s best-known short stories. But as we observed on Tuesday, it’s one of her most interesting experiments in short fiction because in a sense it’s three […]
A Short Analysis of Virginia Woolf’s ‘The String Quartet’
By Dr Oliver Tearle (Loughborough University) ‘The String Quartet’ was published in Virginia Woolf’s short-story collection Monday or Tuesday in 1921. As we remarked in our summary of the story on Tuesday, it’s one of Woolf’s strongest evocations of music and its links to memory and imagination. You can read […]
A Short Analysis of Virginia Woolf’s ‘Blue and Green’
By Dr Oliver Tearle (Loughborough University) ‘Blue and Green’ is the collective title of two very short sketches Virginia Woolf included in her 1921 collection of short fiction, Monday or Tuesday. On Tuesday (oddly enough), we offered a short summary of these two sketches; now it’s time to attempt some […]
A Short Analysis of Katherine Mansfield’s ‘Prelude’
‘Prelude’, the long short story which opens Katherine Mansfield’s 1920 collection Bliss and Other Stories, is a modernist masterpiece. But like much modernist fiction, its meaning and its subtle use of symbolism and other narrative devices are unlikely to be fully apparent after a first, or even a second reading. […]