Lentes estilhaçadas: as fraturas da modernidade em Entre os atos e O quarto de Jacob

Abstract

The present works proposes an analysis based on the feminist criticism of the novels Between the Acts (1941) and Jacob’s Room (1922). We aim at exploring the experimentalism as an aesthetic and political tool on Virginia Woolf’s works, from the echoes of Jacob’s Room on her last novel. For this research’s proposal, we will analyze two aspects of the woolfian aesthetic, that unites the novels to be analyzed. The fragmentation of the narrative perspective, based on the essays Modern Fiction (1919) and Character in Fiction (1924), and the fractures of the falogocentric official history exposed by the feminist historical review, based on the the critics of Toril Moi (1991), in Sexual, Textual, Politics, as on the essay A Room of One’s Own (1929), of Virginia Woolf. Therefore, we search not only for the contributions of Woolf to modernism, but also to ratify the presence and maturation of them over her literary and essayistic production.