Abstract: This chapter concentrates on The Voyage Out, proposing that Woolf’s first novel is an extended critique of Wagner’s Tristan and that it is profoundly indebted to, if ambivalent towards, the music drama’s libretto, aesthetics and music. It considers Woolf’s critique of the Gesamtkunstwerk as a model of intermedial relations and teases out the ways in which her representations of interiority and use of narrative perspective were shaped by Wagner’s work and by the leitmotiv particularly. Wagnerian music drama shaped, it argues, some of the most distinctive formal innovations of this and her mature fiction.
Publication Year: 2013
Publication Date: 2013-10-30
Language: en
Type: book-chapter
Indexed In: ['crossref']
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